"Gentlemen, I say to you this discrimination must cease. We are determined to fight this question; we believe the Cons…"

"We intend to continue to vote so long as the government gives us the right and necessary protection; I know that righ…"

"A remedy is needed to meet the evil now existing in most of the southern states, but especially in that one which I h…"

"It were but reasonable to hope that this sacred influence should never have been overshadowed, and that in the histor…"

"The suggestions of the shrewdest Democratic papers have proved unavailing in controlling the votes of the loyal white…"

"The story of widows and orphans now wandering amid the ravines of the rural counties of my native state seeking prote…"

"It has been asserted on this floor that the Republican Party is answerable for the existing state of affairs in the s…"

"We are fully determined to stand by the Republican Party and the government."

"People I represent, to the extent of the opportunities which they have had, and considering how recently they have es…"

"I think the statistics will prove that there is as much virtue among the Negroes as among the whites."