Archibald Henry Grimké: “Oh friend beloved, with longing, tear-filled eyes We look up, up to the unclouded blue, And seek in vain some answering…”

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.

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.

But to do this, to realize on their party promises and pledges to the people, they must have votes, not mere good will which can not translate itself into effective support on election day.

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…