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 Democracy which is governed first by one party and then by another.
Grimké discusses the natural political behavior of a party leader in a democratic system regarding the value of votes.
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