Archibald Henry Grimké: “I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.”

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.

I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since 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.