It will not encounter the ancient distrust, the inveterate hatred and contempt which the Republican Party arouses in those states, and which have paralyzed its usefulness and reduced it as a party of opposition to the zero point in Southern politics.
Grimké discusses the historical animosity towards the Republican Party, which hinders its effectiveness in the South.
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It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.
Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.