Charles Sumner: “Colored persons were precipitated into the streets, into the mud, under a pelting rain, and they could obtain no…”

“Colored persons were precipitated into the streets, into the mud, under a pelting rain, and they could obtain no redress; and when I asked for redress, grave Senators said, “Let them apply to the courts”; and it was suggested that perhaps I had better volunteer as counsel in court rather than appear in this Chamber.”