Charles Sumner: “And yet this Chief Justice, whom you would honor with a marble bust, had the strange effrontery to declare that at that…”

“And yet this Chief Justice, whom you would honor with a marble bust, had the strange effrontery to declare that at that time, as well abroad as at home, colored men were regarded as having “no rights which the white man was bound to respect”; and this he said to justify a brutal interpretation of the Constitution.”