Here’s the plain letter of the Constitution, the plain, simple, sworn duty of every member of Congress; yet these gentlemen from the South say ‘Yes, we have violated your Constitution of the nation, we regarded it as a local necessity; and now, if you undertake to punish us as the Constitution prescriibes, we will see to it that our former deeds of disloyalty to that instrument, our former acts of disenfranchisement and opposition to the highest law of the land will be repeated manifoldly.’
Hon. George H. White: Member of Congress from North Carolina, A Defense of the Negro Race
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