Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-17

pacity, and she exclaimed aloud: ~, naQ
I received the education l desired had
been bred to the profession of the law, l
might have been a useful member of So
ciety, and instead Of myself and my prop
erty being taken care of might have been
the protector of the helpless, pleader for
the poor and unfortunate"
THE YOUNGER.
| In the meantime Angelina Grimke, more
| brilliant than her sister, living in Charles
| ton, took the same offence at slavery. When
a little child she would steal out OF the house
after dark with bottle of oil and anoint
the wounds of some whipped slave. Even
earlier than Sarah Grimke she secuted the
whole system as unjust, and refused to have
anything to do with it, Angelina connect
ed herself with the Presbyterians at first,
considering that they were liberal as to edu-
cation and other things. Sarah appears to
have had some passage in Philadelphia
which she rejected not without a life OF sad
ness, and she fastened to her sister in
Charleston at the age of thirty-tive. There
it, and not without serious questioning and
testing Angelina became Quaker also.
They continued with that church until the
marriage of the younger sister in 1888, at
the age of thirty-th The Quakers then
turned both sisters out of their meeting.
Angelina married Theodore Weld, radical
anti-slavery man, anu they had child, and
Angelina died in 1879, at the age of seven
ty-fOur. She was born in the adminlstra-
tion of Jefferson, and died in the term OF
President Hayes.
Angelina wrote to the Quakers when she
was married: "It is our Joy that we have
committedno offence for which Christ Jesus
will disown us as members of the household
of faith" Keeping her diary in South Car
olina, three years before Notification broke
out, Angelina wrote: GA person must be
destitute of Christian feelings to be willing
to be served by slaves who are actuated by
no sentiment but that of fear. When / go
into mothers room to read to her l am con-
tinually interrupted by a variety Of orders,
which might easily be avoided were it not
for the
| DOMINEERING SPIRIT
which is, it seems to me, inherent in the
Carolinian." Again she wrote: "Slavery
is system of abject selfshness, and yet
believe have seen some of the best OF 1T.
Experience has convinced me that a person
may own slave with single eye to the
glory of God, but as the eye is kept single
It will soon become full of light on this mo-
mentous subject. The arm of power will be
broken, the voice of authority will tremble."
These ideas were inculcated from within
and not from without, for Angelina had
never left her native State.
In 1929 Angelina Grimke, at the age or
twenty-four, left Carolina never to return,
and made her home with her sister in the
Quaker family at Philadelphia. In 1885
slavery, which William Lloyd Garrison,
without permission, published. Sarah
Grimke disapproved of this letter. In the
meantime, both sisters had come in contact
with the leading abolitionists like Catherine
Beecher and Elias Wright. They offered to
buy some of the slaves of their brothers
widow, who would not notice their letters.
Angelina had more of the masculine nature
than Sarah, and was the first to throw her.
self strenuously into the anti-slavery cause.
The Quakers of Philadelphia prosecuted
both sisters in their meetings, led by Old
Jonathan Evans, the presiding elder, who
was called Pope Jonathan.
In 1886 Angelina published an anti-slave-
ry pamphlet, the first womani in the country
to come fatty out on that subject. 1t was
| burned by the postmasters in South Caroli-
ma, and when it was understood that the Sis
ters designed to visit their mother and pass
the winter there the Mayor of Charleston
called on Mrs. Grimke, and desired her to
inform her daughter that the police had
been notified to prevent her landing while
the steamer remained in port, and that II
she should slip ashore she would be put in
prison. This treatment aroused the lion in
theyounger sisters nature the two women
removed to New York, became eminent in
the anti-slavery cause, addressed women
and delivered lectures; appeared IN Boston,
and in 1887 the sisters proclaimed woman's
rights in the anti-slavery societies Of New
England, and were the pioneers in this
cause.
Boston denounced the Grimke women,
public halls were refused to them, and per-
sonal violence was threatened. The Qua
kers called upon their meetings to discipline
these people of spirit. Years passed on and
just after the marriage of Angelina she, her
sister and her husband, were in Pennsylva-
MIA Hall, in Philadelphia, when it was
burned down by the mob. This beautiful
hall had been built for the use of the anti
slavery people who were refused any other
place of meeting in Philadelphia. 1t cost
SAC, 900, and was opened on Angelina Grim
ke's wedding day. She made the most STIR
ring speech within it's walls, and while she
was speaking, the mob, set on by Southern
sympathizers, began to throw stones through
the windows. No violence could make her
blanch. After she left the hall with her au-
dience, the doors and windows were broken
through, the torch was applied, and the
beautiful building was burned to the ground.
That was the last of Angelina Grimke as
public speaker; some disease incident to
marriage affected her nervous system, and
her subsequent labors were confined to the
pen and the school-room. She lived at sew
eral places in the vicinity of New York
with her husband, teaching and entertain
| ing poor people and often slaves. She final
ly settled near Perth Amboy, New Jersey,
and while there, the bodies of Stevens and
Hazlett, two of John Browns men, were
brought from their gallows at Charlestown,
and inferred by the East. After the war
she relieved some of her sisters and people
who had long tried to despise her, and these
two women passed away not many years
apart, and not widely known, but deeply
beloved.
WENDELL PHILLIPS TRIRUTE.
Wendell Phillips said over their graves:
ga young woman came from the proudest
State in the slave-hoding section. She
came to lay on the altar of this despised
cause, this hopeless crusade, both family and
friends, the best social position, high place
in the church, genius and many gifts. There
was hardly any contribution to the anti
slavery movement greater or more express
i've than the courage of these Grimke sisters
through the New England States. When l
think of Angelina Grimke there comes to
me the picture Of the spotless dove in the
tempest as she battles with the stream, seek
ing for some place to rest her foot. The
white-souled child of twelve years old min
istering to want and sorrow, the rich life,
full of great influences, the serene old age,
example and inspiration, whose life will not
tie while. God keep US fit to join thee in
1l,o4 Go1l hoS