Archibald Henry Grimké: “The insurgent moral sense of a mudsill and shopkeeping North had at last found voice and vent.”

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

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.