An injustice so gross and palpable will not be submitted to by the colored people of the south, nor by fair-minded white men in the south who hate wrong and injustice; nor by the great northern people, by whose sacrifices in the Union cause the war was brought to a successful termination.
Sherman asserts that the gross injustices faced by Southern colored people will not be tolerated by fair-minded individuals.
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Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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