Angelina Emily Grimké: “No! for the stone which struck Goliath of Gath, had already been thrown from the sling.”

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.

They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.

And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…

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.