Archibald Henry Grimké: “All the same these people, poor and ignorant and at the mercy of a ruthless employer class, were happy as children in…”

It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.