Archibald Henry Grimké: “Whatever other questions admitted of conciliatory treatment he was sure that the slavery question admitted of none.”

It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.

Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.

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

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…