Archibald Henry Grimké: “Beneath differences of language, governments, religion, race, color, he discerned the underlying human principle and…”

It is true examples of disinterested benevolence and individual sacrifices are numerous, particularly in the Southern States; but no systematic, vigorous, and successful measures have been made to overthrow this fabric of oppression.

Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.