Archibald Henry Grimké: “Service was natural and easy for them, and the cherishing of friends and foes in their need; but resentfulness and…”

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.

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.

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

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.