Quote#Politics & Power
I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast…
Quote byRobert Smalls · 1839–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: September 12, 1912 Letter, expressing concerns over the Presidential election.
English (original)
I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place
— Robert Smalls
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