Archibald Henry Grimké: “For such men do not lose standing in Southern society or the church or the state in consequence of their sin.”

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.

White and black party following with white leadership is therefore the only feasible proposition, which stands any show of success as a party of opposition in that section under existing conditions.

And yet if relief is ever to come to the Negro in the South, it must come to him by the way of an opposition party, which will put an end to the political solidity of that section by introducing into it bi-party in place of its one-party…