Archibald Henry Grimké: “And yet, he was no fanatical visionary, Utopian dreamer, but a practical moralist in the domain of politics.”

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 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.

It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…

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.