Special Message
02/02/1904
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If the colored men elect to stand by criminals of their own race because they are of their own race, they assuredly lay up for themselves th...
In precisely the same spirit I have now acted with reference to these colored men who have been guilty of a black and dastardly crime.
But I wish it distinctly understood that the fact of the birthplace of either officer is one which I absolutely refuse to consider.
I have striven to break up peonage; I have upheld the hands of those who, like Judge Jones and Judge Speer, have warred against this peonage...