Archibald Henry Grimké: “On the contrary has he not been patient and peaceful and cheerful under wrongs which would have made any other class of…”

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 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…

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.