Archibald Henry Grimké: “The individual suffers but the cause goes forward.”

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

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.

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

Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.