Archibald Henry Grimké: “Everywhere the treatment of the Negro is the same, and everywhere the purpose of the South is plain.”

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.

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.

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.

Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.