For while some good can be placed to the credit of those governments nothing but bad can possibly be set down to the account of Southern lawlessness and violence.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “For while some good can be placed to the credit of those governments nothing but bad can possibly be set down to the…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké contrasts the mixed legacy of carpet-bag governments with the unequivocally negative impact of Southern lawlessness.
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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?
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.
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.
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…