Archibald Henry Grimké: “It is not regard for the forms of religion but for the spirit, which is essential to righteousness.”

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…

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.

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…