A Constitutional and Educational Solution of the Negro Problem

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Excerpt from A Constitutional and Educational Solution of the Negro Problem: An Address Delivered in the Senate Chamber, Albany N. Y., At the Opening of the 41st Annual Convocation, of the University of the State of New York, Tuesday Evening, June 29, 1903So tonight I plead for a constitutional solution of the negro problem. I plead for the same law for the negro as for the white man. There must be some stage, said the Supreme Court, when the negro takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws, and when his rights as a citizen, or a man, are to be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men's rights are protected. [109 U. S. 25] That stage is now reached, and for the constitutional rights of the eight million Southern negroes, as mere citizens, I plead tonight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.