Archibald Henry Grimké: “A flaming spirit will presently appear in the midst of that meeting, and it will not be the flaming spirit of liberty…”

Colonel Roosevelt, as the leader of the new party, recognized at his full political value the Negro in states where his vote is counted, and perceived the very slight value, potential and actual, as a party asset of the Negro in states…

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 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…