Archibald Henry Grimké: “For they found no law strong enough to protect them in their lives or property or freedom from the murderous attacks of…”

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?

Such a proposition, the Republican Party is incapable of making for reasons already pointed out, and the Democratic Party for other and obvious reasons is precluded from offering.

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.