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Just as well might a Temperance Society admit a practical drunkard into their ranks, as for an Abolition Society to admit a slaveholder to membership.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké compares the exclusion of slaveholders from Abolitionist ranks to a temperance society admitting a drunkard, emphasizing the incompatibility of their values.
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He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.
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.