Archibald Henry Grimké: “He appeals to good men and true in the South and in the North and in the Government too, to give him what he is entitled…”

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…

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.

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?

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.