Archibald Henry Grimké: “They signalized their first entrance upon the stage of national affairs by an attempt to create a serf class out of…”

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.

At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

All these requisites were wanting to the man whose sole possession seemed an indomitable will, a faith in himself, and in the righteousness of his cause, which nothing could shake, nor disappointment nor difficulty, however great, was able…