Archibald Henry Grimké: “His life became thenceforth associated with the weal of States, his fate with the fortunes of a great people.”

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.

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.

O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.