The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong. Such appeals to your legislatures would be irresistible, for there is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity. If you could obtain but six signatures to such a petition in only one state, I would say, send up that petition, and be not in the least discouraged by the scoffs, and jeers of the heartless, or the resolution of the house to lay it on the table. It will be a great thing if the subject can be introduced into your legislatures in any way, even by women, arid they will be the most likely to introduce it there in the best possible manner, as a matter of morals and religion, not of expediency or politics. You may petition, too, the different ecclesiastical bodies of the slave states. Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit. You must take it up on Christian ground, and fight against it with Christian weapons, whilst your feet are sho
In this paragraph, Angelina appears to be calling to arms the women of her country to resist the act of slavery and appealing on their moral ground, abolish the act of slavery and its ideals. She based her calls on their religious background, the morality of the practice and with sheer determination influence their way of thinking, with passionate persuasion. It is of great admiration that she call on her citizens to revoke slavery and act on it through legislation because she knew that words without action will not bear fruit. She was aware of what some people feel, through her words some of them were conflicted, whether it's right or wrong she made a statement clearing all that up.