It is hard to think that human beings can be placed thus defenceless by Act of Congress,--that masters or overseers, being white, may offer to colored persons any offence, any brutality, and the testimony of the witnesses, merely because they are colored, shall be excluded absolutely.
He laments the vulnerability of colored individuals under laws that allow their testimony to be disregarded.
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