Archibald Henry Grimké: “Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further…”

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.

Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.