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.
Sumner recounts the mistreatment of colored persons and the lack of redress from the Senate.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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