And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous consequences now?  “Be not deceived then, God is not mocked,” by such false excuses for not doing justly and loving mercy.  There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

Sisters in Christ, I have done.  As a Southerner, I have felt it was my duty to address you.  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.  I have appealed to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as Christian women>.  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.  I have done—­I have sowed the seeds of truth, but I well know, that even if an Apollos were to follow in my steps to water them, “God only can give the increase.”  To Him then who is able to prosper the work of his servant’s hand, I commend this Appeal in fervent prayer, that as he “hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty,” so He may cause His blessing, to descend and carry conviction to the hearts of many Lydias through these speaking pages.  Farewell.—­Count me not your “enemy because I have told you the truth,” but believe me in unfeigned affection,

Your sympathizing Friend,

ANGELINA E. GRIMKE.

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, corner of Spruce and
Nassau Streets.

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER.

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VOL.  I. SEPTEMBER, 1836.  No. 2.

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APPEAL

TO THE

CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF THE SOUTH,

BY A.E.  GRIMKE REVISED AND CORRECTED.

“Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house more than all the Jews.  For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shalt there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place:  but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed:  and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.  And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:—­and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish.”

    Esther IV. 13-16.

RESPECTED FRIENDS,