To this I reply, I know you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do; and if you really suppose you can do nothing to overthrow slavery, you are greatly mistaken.
Grimké encourages women to recognize their influence in the fight against slavery, despite not making laws themselves.
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There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.