Archibald Henry Grimké: “Grotius and Pothier and Mansfield and Blackstone and Marshall and Story were the shining heights to which he aspired.”

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.

It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.