Sumner, to broaden the civil rights of the colored man, to abolish discrimination against him as enforced by hotels, railroad companies, places of public amusement, and in short, in every capacity where he was rendered unequal in privilege to the white man.
Blaine discusses the importance of civil rights for African Americans and the need to abolish discrimination in various public spheres.
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He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
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