Archibald Henry Grimké: “Beneath differences of language, governments, religion, race, color, he discerned the underlying human principle and…”

There must be added to them this something else, this one thing needful to render them effective to save the blacks from the evil consequences of their race ignorance, and the whites from the evil consequences of their race prejudice.

Such a proposition, the Republican Party is incapable of making for reasons already pointed out, and the Democratic Party for other and obvious reasons is precluded from offering.

Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.

And yet if relief is ever to come to the Negro in the South, it must come to him by the way of an opposition party, which will put an end to the political solidity of that section by introducing into it bi-party in place of its one-party…