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Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké emphasizes her reliance on the Bible as the ultimate authority in her arguments regarding faith and practice.
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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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
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.