Archibald Henry Grimké: “The present outlook for that race is gloomy and depressing, and this gloom and depression are nation-wide.”

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.

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.

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…

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…