...to administer it as we find it, according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted. . . . They had, for more than a century before, been regarded...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit....

...but the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. u They had for more than a century before been regarded...inferior, that they had' no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Mr. Speaker, shall we in providing for the reconstruction of the Union, accept...

...memorable instrument. They had for more than a century been regarded as beings of an inferior order, aud altogether unfit to associate with the white race,...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."...

...held at the formation of our government. Blacks were then regarded as beings of an inferior order, "and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." This outrageous sentiment is mentioned only to be impliedly condemned—the...

...But the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. " They had, for more than a century before, been regarded...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit....

...adopted. But the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit....

...adopted. But the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit....

...nation " and in this country. At the tki of the formation of our government, he said, " they h^I, fe more than a century before, been regarded as beings...with the white race, either in social or political relation ; and so far inferiz that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and...

...the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of our Constitution people of the African race had " been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and...race, either in social or political relations "; and this unhappy asseveration culminates in the words, "and so far inferior that they had no rights which...

...But the public history of every European nation dity>tat/s it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. " They had for more than a century before been regarded...relations, — and so far inferior, that they had no riyhts which the white man wax bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced...