... in his worst estate; nor by Alva; nor by Attila, promised such hideous doom, as the calculated cruelty of the design to make the black man in the South the white man's master. Have we, inquired Frank Blair in the senate of the United States on February 5, 1871, a Federal union of free States. We have not, he answed. The senator (Morton) has gone somewhat into the history of the fifteenth amendment...