Archibald Henry Grimké: “Oh friend beloved, with longing, tear-filled eyes We look up, up to the unclouded blue, And seek in vain some answering…”

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.

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.

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

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