Archibald Henry Grimké: “The slave race possessed no more and knew no more as freedmen than they had possessed or known as slaves.”

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.

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.

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

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.