Archibald Henry Grimké: “It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a…”

I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.

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.

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.

On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.