Archibald Henry Grimké: “On the wings of that tragedy Sumner rose to an enduring place in the pantheon of the nation.”

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.

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

But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.