Archibald Henry Grimké: “It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.”

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

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

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