Archibald Henry Grimké: “That is the spirit which the Negro encounters in the American church; that is the spirit which crushes him down and…”

All these requisites were wanting to the man whose sole possession seemed an indomitable will, a faith in himself, and in the righteousness of his cause, which nothing could shake, nor disappointment nor difficulty, however great, was able…

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.

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

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.