Archibald Henry Grimké: “It was the divine pang and pity of it which collected from the East and from the West this remarkable body of reformers.”

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.

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.

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?

But to do this, to realize on their party promises and pledges to the people, they must have votes, not mere good will which can not translate itself into effective support on election day.