an occasion for thus emphasizing their convictions
by their acts; adding that they honored the "Friends" all the
more for that fidelity which constrained them to do, however
painful, what they believed to be their duty.

Angelina's "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" "made her
a forced exile from her native State." As she never voluntarily
spoke of what she had done or suffered, few, if any, of the
Abolitionists, either knew then, or know now, that she was really
exiled by an Act of the Charleston city government. When her
"Appeal" came out, a large number of copies were sent by mail to
South Carolina. Most of them were publicly burned by postmasters.
Not long after this, the city authorities learned that Miss
Grimke was intending to visit her mother and sisters, and pass
the winter with them. Thereupon the mayor of Charleston called
upon Mrs. Grimke, and desired her to inform her daughter that the
police had been instructed to prevent her landing while the
steamer remained in port, and to see to it that she should not
communicate, by letter or otherwise, with any persons in the
city; and, further, that if she should elude their vigilance, and
go on shore, she would be arrested and imprisoned, until the
return of the steamer. Her Charleston friends at once conveyed to
her the message of the mayor, and added that the people of
Charleston were so incensed against her, that if she should go
there, despite the mayor's threat of pains and penalties, she
could not escape personal violence at the bands of the mob. She
replied to the letter, that her going would doubtless compromise
her family; not only distress them, but put them in peril, which
she had neither heart nor right to do; but for that fact, she
would certainly exercise her constitutional right as an American
citizen, and go to Charleston to visit her relatives, and, if for
that the authorities should inflict upon her pains and penalties,
she would willingly bear them, assured that such an outrage would
help to reveal to the free States the fact that slavery defies
and tramples alike constitutions and laws, and thus outlaws
itself.

When the American Anti-Slavery Society wrote to Miss Grimke,
inviting her to visit New York city, and hold meetings in private
parlors with Ch