He condemns Chief-Justice Taney for declaring that colored persons are not citizens, and then, with marvellous logic, proceeds to say that he will not interfere to overturn the rule by which the testimony of colored persons is excluded from the national courts.
He critiques Chief-Justice Taney's logic regarding the citizenship of colored persons and the exclusion of their testimony.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
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