Angelina Emily Grimké: “We must examine its bearing upon the moral, political, and religious institutions of the country.”

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.

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.