Archibald Henry Grimké: “Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.”

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.

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…

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?

That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.