Angelina Emily Grimké: “Sure I am, that the signs of the times clearly indicate a vast and rapid change in public sentiment, on this subject.”

Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…