Archibald Henry Grimké: “Such a terrible arraignment of the slave power in general, and of Senator Butler in particular demanded an answer.”

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.

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.

It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.