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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 17: (search)
ious reference to a distinction in color, which the framers of the constitution took such pains to avoid. The joint resolution — with the clause, that, whenever the elective franchise shall be denied or abridged in any State, on account of race or color, all persons therein of such race or color shall be excluded from the basis of representation --had passed the House by a large majority, and was favorably entertained by the Senate, when Mr. Sumner, on the 6th and 7th of February, and on the 7th and 9th of March, 1866, in speeches characterized by cogent reasoning and historical illustration, unfolded the iniquity of the compromise, and emphatically denounced this effort to admit the idea of inequality and disfranchisement on account of color, into the constitution. After generations have passed, surrounded by the light of Christian truth, and in the very blaze of human freedom, said he, it is proposed to admit into the constitution the twin idea of inequality in rights, and thus