Archibald Henry Grimké: “Therefore, whenever commenced, I cannot but wish success to all slave insurrections....”

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

Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?

No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.

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.