Religion and reason condemn Caste as impious and unchristian, making republican institutions and equal laws impossible; but here is Caste not unlike that which separates the Sudra from the Brahmin.

Down to a recent period in Europe the Jews were driven to herd by themselves, separate from the Christians; but this discarded barbarism is revived among us in the ban of color.

There are millions of fellow-citizens guilty of no offence except the dusky livery of the sun appointed by the Heavenly Father, whom you treat as others have treated the Jews, as the Brahmin treats the Sudra.

But, pray, Sir, do not pretend that this is the great equality promised by our fathers.

If the Civil Rights Law is above question, as cannot be doubted, then also is this supplementary amendment; for it is only the complement of the other, and necessary to its completion.

It cannot be said, according to its title, that all persons are protected in their civil rights, so long as the outrages I expose continue to exist; nor is Slavery entirely dead.

By the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery Congress is empowered “to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”; and in pursuance thereof the Civil Rights Law was enacted.

That measure was justly accepted as “appropriate legislation.” Without it Slavery would still exist in at least one of its most odious pretensions.

By the Civil Rights Law colored persons were assured in the right to testify, which in most of the States was denied or abridged.

So closely was this outrage connected with Slavery, that it was, indeed, part of this great wrong.

But the denial or abridgment of Equality on account of color is also part of Slavery.

So long as it exists, Slavery is still present among us.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the States wherever they reside.

It is my duty now to show its true character as a warning against its author.

Such was the strange beginning, illegal, unconstitutional, and offensive in every particular, but showing the Presidential character.

Naturally force was needed to keep the usurper in power while he sold his country, and naturally such a transaction required a Presidential Aide-de-Camp unknown to Constitution or Law, rather than a civilian duly appointed according to…

What was the liberty of an American citizen compared with the Presidential prerogative?

To one who had defied the Constitution, on which depends the liberty of all, and then defied International Law, on which depends the peace of the world, a single citizen immured in a distant dungeon was of small moment.

The American people rose against the undertaking and insisted upon its abandonment.

In obedience to irrepressible sentiments, and according to the logic of my life, I felt it my duty to speak; but the President would not forgive me, and his peculiar representatives found me disloyal to the party which I had served so long…

How a Chief Magistrate with four millions of colored fellow-citizens could have done this thing passes comprehension.

For more than two generations Hayti had been independent, entitled under International Law to equality among nations, and since Emancipation in our country commended to us as an example of self-government, being the first in the history of…

Do I err in any way, am I not entirely right, when I say that here was unpardonable outrage to the African race?

As one who for years has stood by the side of this much-oppressed people, sympathizing always in their woes and struggling for them, I felt the blow which the President dealt, and it became the more intolerable from the heartless attempts…

Alas, that our President should be willing to wield the giant strength of the Great Republic in trampling upon the representative government of the African race!