I pay taxes to support the government, and am denied any representation or any voice in regard to the manner in which these taxes shall be expended.

I hail a car on the street, and am laughed to scorn by the conductor,--or, admitted, at the order of the passengers am ignominiously expelled.

I offer my money at the door of any place of public amusement, and it is flung back to me with an oath.

I enter a train to New York, and am banished to the rear seat or the 'negro car.' I go to a hotel, open for the accommodation of the public, and am denied access; or am requested to keep my room, and not show myself in parlor, office, or at table.

I come within a church, to worship the good God who is no respecter of persons, and am shown out of the door by one of his insolent creatures.
I carry my intelligence to the polls on election morning, and am elbowed aside by an American boor or a foreign drunkard, and, with opprobrious epithets by law officers and rabble, am driven away.