Angelina Emily Grimké: “I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers; Are you willing to enslave your children?”

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.

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

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.

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.