Archibald Henry Grimké: “Social and political reconstruction in those states it seems now must come from within and by voluntary action not from…”

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.

It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.

Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.