Archibald Henry Grimké: “If disunion and civil war were crouching in the rough way of the Nation's duty, the Republic was not to turn aside into…”

It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…

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.

White and black party following with white leadership is therefore the only feasible proposition, which stands any show of success as a party of opposition in that section under existing conditions.

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.