Archibald Henry Grimké: “Cheerful they were by nature and hopeful, and gifted withal with an extraordinary amount of the milk of human kindness.”

Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.