Archibald Henry Grimké: “Look down upon us, guide and cheer us still From the serene height where thou dwellest now; Dark is the way without the…”

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.

When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.

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.