Archibald Henry Grimké: “And yet both the mob and its victims are American citizens, entitled alike on paper to the law's protection and amenable…”

Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.

Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?

He saw that they were not essentially unlike other races--that there was nothing morally or intellectually peculiar about them, and that the evil or the good which they manifested was the common property of mankind in similar circumstances.

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…