And when it is remembered, that, for months and almost for years after the opening of the rebellion, we refused to accept the services of colored persons in the armies of the country, it is with ill grace that we now decline to allow the vote of any man because he has not performed that service.
Boutwell critiques the hypocrisy of denying voting rights to individuals who were previously excluded from military service due to race.
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Indeed, one may go still further, and say that it is not safe to trust the guidance of the Government in financial affairs to men whose life business it has been to convert information into gold.
But I am more anxious to deal justly by them because they are men.
He possessed wit, sarcasm and irony in every form.
They were relived from the disparaging distinctions that came into existence with the system of slavery.
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