Archibald Henry Grimké: “Such a proposition, the Republican Party is incapable of making for reasons already pointed out, and the Democratic…”

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.