Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence the Best Speeches Delivered By the Negro From T
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence the Best Speeches Delivered By the Negro From T
Alice Ruth Moore
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" Who can describe the shock of that first terrible amazement, the hot indignation felt by a race at the huge injustice, at the Draconian severity of that order which expelled from the American Army one hundred and sixty- seven men without trial of any kind and on a mere suspi cion of their guilt, and which made them forever ineligible to employment thereafter in any department of the National Government, whether on its civil, military, or naval side, and the deep consternation which filled the... homes of every colored man in the land North and South alike? I for one can not describe those feelings, although I experienced in unison with the race at the time the amazement, the indignation, and the consternation which swept us together and caused us to feel and speak and act as one man under the wrong done us by the hand of an old friend whose golden words of hope and fair play we had sometime written in letters of light on the tablets of our hearts. It is no slight matter for any man, whether he be President or private citizen, so to wound the sense of right of a whole race, so to shock its 339 MASTERPIECES OF NEGRO ELOQUENCE faith in the justice and righteousness of its rulers and government, as that cruel blunder of the President of the United States produced among the colored people of the entire country.
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