That hatred and the Puritanical sternness and intolerance of his nature had on the contrary intensified his temper and purpose as an anti-slavery leader.
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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Those four fateful years of suffering had not abated his hatred of slavery.
Harper's Ferry had become freedom's Balaklava, and John Brown had mounted from a Virginia gallows to the throne and the glory of martyrdom.
A new political organization, the Republican, had arisen instead to resist the extension of slavery to national territory.
The miracle of miracles was again performed, the good man's blood had turned into the seed-corn of his cause.
His life became thenceforth associated with the weal of States, his fate with the fortunes of a great people.
On the wings of that tragedy Sumner rose to an enduring place in the pantheon of the nation.
Oh! the pity of it, but the sacrificial grandeur of it also!
To it, that power had but one reply, violence, the reply which wrong ever makes to right.
Such a terrible arraignment of the slave power in general, and of Senator Butler in particular demanded an answer.
No quarter he had received from the slave power, and none now he gave to it or its representatives.
Whoever else did, he would not submit to senatorial insult and bondage.