He was at last untrammelled by constitutional conditions and limitations, was free to carry the War into Africa.
Archibald Henry Grimké
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Archibald Henry Grimké was an African-American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He graduated from freedmen's schools, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and Harvard Law School, and served as American Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894 to 1898. He was an activist for the rights of Black Americans, working in Boston and Washington, D.C. He was a national vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as president of its Washington, D.C. chapter.
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Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.
It should on the contrary, regardless of consequences, seek to re-establish itself in justice and liberty.
If disunion and civil war were crouching in the rough way of the Nation's duty, the Republic was not to turn aside into easier ways to avoid them.
Here he took his stand, and from it nothing and no one were able to budge him.
With him there was to be no further compromise with the evil, not an inch more of concessions would he grant it.
Whatever other questions admitted of conciliatory treatment he was sure that the slavery question admitted of none.
Where-ever liberty needed him, there he was, the knight without fear or reproach.
Peace, ever enduring peace, comes only to that nation which puts down sin, and lifts up righteousness.
Nothing is settled which is not settled right, I hear him saying, high above the breaking storm of civil strife.
There was light on but one difficult way, the way of national righteousness.
His body nobly planned and proportioned was a fit servant of his lofty and indomitable mind.