There are eleven States in which the negro is not yet secure in his political rights; and there are as many, and perhaps two or three more, in which if he be suspected of a crime of the first magnitude, he is likely to undergo a cruel death, without a trial.
Hoar highlights the ongoing struggles for political rights faced by African Americans in the post-Civil War United States.
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