He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké describes Sumner's steadfast character and his embodiment of Puritan values in the fight against slavery.
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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.
The difference between this motto of the Liberator and that of the Free Press: Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country--measures the greatness of the revolution which had taken place in the young editor.
Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.