Archibald Henry Grimké: “Nothing could separate him from his duty to them, neither dangers present nor persecutions to come.”

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.

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.

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.

I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.