Archibald Henry Grimké: “Harper's Ferry had become freedom's Balaklava, and John Brown had mounted from a Virginia gallows to the throne and the…”

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

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

Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?