Angelina Emily Grimké: “Strange indeed, when the labors of these men are actually rolling back the car of Emancipation for one or two centuries!”

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

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.

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.

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.