Archibald Henry Grimké: “It was the divine pang and pity of it which collected from the East and from the West this remarkable body of reformers.”

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

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.

When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.

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…