Archibald Henry Grimké: “It was freedom alone that he was solicitious of establishing, the supremacy of democratic ideas and institutions in the…”

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.

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.

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…

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?