The brotherhood of man exists no longer, because you shoot negroes in Illinois, when they come in competition with your labor, and we shoot them in South Carolina, when they come in competition with us in the matter of elections.
Hoar condemns racial violence and hypocrisy in the treatment of African Americans in the North and South.
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