Archibald Henry Grimké: “His life became thenceforth associated with the weal of States, his fate with the fortunes of a great people.”

For myself, I had rather rob any bank to an indefinite amount than kidnap a fellow-being, or hold him in bondage; the sin would be less injurious to society, and less sinful in the sight of God.

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.

O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.