Angelina Emily Grimké: “You must take it up on Christian ground, and fight against it with Christian weapons, whilst your feet are shod with the…”

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

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

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…

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