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Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgConsequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
Grimké asserts that individuals are not responsible for the consequences of their moral actions, similar to the apostles.
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He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.