Archibald Henry Grimké: “The miracle of miracles was again performed, the good man's blood had turned into the seed-corn of his cause.”

That the founder of the new political party, as a practical man, should discriminate between colored men with a vote and colored men without a vote seems to me to be altogether natural, to grow, in fact, out of the necessities of every…

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?

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.

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.