Angelina Emily Grimké: “The right of petition is the only political right that women have: why not let them exercise it whenever they are…”

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

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.

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

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