Archibald Henry Grimké: “The insurgent moral sense of a mudsill and shopkeeping North had at last found voice and vent.”

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.

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 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.

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.