Archibald Henry Grimké: “The states which have thus revised their constitutions have thereby effected the practical disfranchisement of their…”

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.

The difference between this motto of the Liberator and that of the Free Press: Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country--measures the greatness of the revolution which had taken place in the young editor.

At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.