And I am free to express my belief, that all who really and heartily approve our principles, will also approve our measures; and that, too, just as certainly as a good tree will bring forth good fruit.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “And I am free to express my belief, that all who really and heartily approve our principles, will also approve our…”
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She expresses her belief that genuine support for abolitionist principles will also manifest in supportive actions.
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They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
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.
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.