Archibald Henry Grimké: “The necessity of doing, doing, and yet ever doing for the slave was plainly pressing deep like thorns into his thoughts.”

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.

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.

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.

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…