But whatever has been the motive of that party for its policy of inactivity and indecision on this question heretofore, there are not wanting signs of a change of that policy presently into one of activity and decision.
Grimké expresses hope for a shift in the Republican Party's approach to Southern representation and activism.
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It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…
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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.