Archibald Henry Grimké: “Andrew foresaw in 1866 as likely to come to pass in case of disfranchisement of the blacks, has been coming to pass ever…”

He saw that they were not essentially unlike other races--that there was nothing morally or intellectually peculiar about them, and that the evil or the good which they manifested was the common property of mankind in similar circumstances.

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

No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.

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