Archibald Henry Grimké: “Force and violence toward the blacks were relied upon to put through this legislative and administrative program.”

At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.

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

Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.

All these requisites were wanting to the man whose sole possession seemed an indomitable will, a faith in himself, and in the righteousness of his cause, which nothing could shake, nor disappointment nor difficulty, however great, was able…