“But the freedom won by the men of 1776 was incomplete without the freedom for which the men of 1833 were striving.” — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“He was at last untrammelled by constitutional conditions and limitations, was free to carry the War into Africa. “Carthago est delenda” was thenceforth ever… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.” — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing but war,… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“But the freedom won by the men of 1776 was incomplete without the freedom for which the men of 1833 were striving.” — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“Like all of Mr. Sumner’s speeches, this speech was carefully written out and largely memorized. He was deficient in the qualities of the great… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s entrance into the Senate was into the midst of a hostile camp. On either side of the chamber enemies confronted him. Southern Whigs… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times, in the… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the insolence of… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
