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If I supposed that our labors in the cause of the slave would produce no better results than those of these worthies, I should utterly despair.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké reflects on the potential despair she would feel if she believed their efforts would yield no better results than past abolitionists.
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I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.
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.