Archibald Henry Grimké: “Never before in the Government had freedom touched so high a level.”

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.

It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.