If they are animated by a true spirit of patriotism--by a genuine love for the Union, they should, and could with effect, interpose to stay this moral pestilence.
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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By perpetual discussion, agitation and threats, accompanied with the real or imaginary power to perform, there will be need of no other action than words to shake the confidence of men in the safety and continuance of the institution of…
To acknowledge the right, or to tolerate the act of interference at all with this institution, is to give it up--to abandon it entirely; and, as this must be the consummation of any interference, the sooner it is reached the better.
My soul glows with gratitude to God for his mercy to the down-trodden slaves, in raising up for them in these days of savage cruelty, hundreds who, fearless of consequences, are standing up for the entire abolition of slavery, whom, though…
I am distressed on this subject: my conscience will let me have no peace.
The foregoing are but a few of the facts and testimonies in the possession of Abolitionists, showing that their discussions, periodicals, petitions, arguments, appeals and societies, have extensively moved, and are still mightily moving…
Now, those who incessantly stun us with such unreasonable clamor, know full well, that to give the public the names and residences of such persons, would be in most instances to surrender them to butchery.
Yea more, these persons have committed to us the custody even of their lives, thus encountering imminent peril that they might cheer us onward in our work.
Shall we betray their trust, or put them in jeopardy?
Was South Carolina willing to receive abolition pamphlets then?
Was Charleston ready to receive Abolition pamphlets then?
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.