Colonizationists tell us, if it had not been for our interference, they could have done a vast deal better than they have done; and the American Unionists say, that we have paralyzed their efforts, so that they can do nothing; and yet ‘the tendencies of the age’ are crowding forward Emancipation.
Grimké critiques colonizationists and American Unionists for their claims about abolitionist efforts.
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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.
He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
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.