Archibald Henry Grimké: “Because that innocent man was black, and because his murder helps to uphold white supremacy over millions of people…”

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.

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.

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?

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.