The states which have thus revised their constitutions have thereby effected the practical disfranchisement of their entire colored population.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “The states which have thus revised their constitutions have thereby effected the practical disfranchisement of their…”
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Grimké discusses the practical disenfranchisement of African Americans due to constitutional changes.
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And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
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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.