Archibald Henry Grimké: “Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men…”

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.

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

Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…