the enemy was slowly organizing the destructive mob that
finally burned that grand edifice to the ground. There were a large
number of strangers in the city from the South, and many Southern
students attending the medical college, who were all active in the
riot. The crowds of women and colored people who had attended the
Convention intensified the exasperation of the mob. Black men and
white women walking side by side in and out of the hall, was too much
for the foreign plebeian and the Southern patrician.

As it was announced that on the evening of the third day some ladies
were to speak, a howling mob surrounded the building. In the midst of
the tumult Mr. Garrison introduced Maria Chapman,[63] of Boston, who
rose, and waving her hand to the audience to become quiet, tried in a
few eloquent and appropriate remarks to bespeak a hearing for Angelina
E. Grimke, the gifted orator from South Carolina, who, having lived in
the midst of slavery all her life, could faithfully describe its
cruelties and abominations. But the indescribable uproar outside,
cries of fire, and yells of defiance, were a constant interruption,
and stones thrown against the windows a warning of coming danger. But
through it all this brave Southern woman stood unmoved, except by the
intense earnestness of her own great theme.

ANGELINA GRIMKE'S ADDRESS.

Do you ask, "What has the North to do with slavery?" Hear it,
hear it! Those voices without tell us that the spirit of slavery
is _here_, and has been roused to wrath by our Conventions; for
surely liberty would not foam and tear herself with rage, because
her friends are multiplied daily, and meetings are held in quick
succession to set forth her virtues and extend her peaceful
kingdom. This opposition shows that slavery has done its
deadliest work in the hearts of our citizens. Do you ask, then,
"What has the North to do?" I answer, cast out first the spirit
of slavery from your own hearts, and then lend your aid to
convert the South. Each one present has a work to do, be his or
her situation what it may, however limited their means or
insignificant their supposed influence. The great men of this
country will not do this work; the Church will never do it. A
desire to please the world, to keep the favor of all parties and
of all conditions, makes them dumb on this and every other
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