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Xxii.
During the session of this Convention, the following letter from Mr. Sumner was read:
Boston, October 21, 1871.
Dear Sir: I am glad that our colored fellow-citizens are to have a convention of their own. So long as they are excluded from rights, or suffer in any way, on account of color, they will naturally meet together in order to find a proper remedy, and, since you kindly invite me to communicate with the convention, I make bold to offer a few brief suggestions.
In of Hayti.
To these inestimable objects, add specie payments, and you have a platform which ought to be accepted by the American people.
Will not our colored fellow-citizens begin this good work?
Let them at the same time save themselves and save the country.
These are the only hints which I submit to the convention, hoping that its proceedings will tend especially to the good wishes of the colored race.
Accept my thanks and best wishes, and believe me faithfully yours, Charles Sumner.
Frederick Douglass (search for this): chapter 257
October 21st, 1871 AD (search for this): chapter 257
Xxii.
During the session of this Convention, the following letter from Mr. Sumner was read:
Boston, October 21, 1871.
Dear Sir: I am glad that our colored fellow-citizens are to have a convention of their own. So long as they are excluded from rights, or suffer in any way, on account of color, they will naturally meet together in order to find a proper remedy, and, since you kindly invite me to communicate with the convention, I make bold to offer a few brief suggestions.
In the first place, you must at all times insist upon your rights, and here I mean not only those already accorded, but others still denied, all of which are contained in equality before the law. Wherever the law supplies a rule, there you must insist upon equal rights.
How much remains to be obtained, you know too well in the experience of life.
Can a respectable colored citizen travel on steamboats or railways, or public conveyances generally, without insult on account of color?
Let Lieutenant