It is wholly incapable of attracting Southern whites in sufficient numbers to raise it to the rank of a party of opposition, or to give to it the barest chance of achieving success at the polls.
He discusses the inability of the political party to gain traction among Southern whites, highlighting systemic barriers.
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I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.
During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.