We then bow our heads in shame and lay bare to them the chains that yet hold our ankles, though the world has pronounced us free.
"In school, they are taught to bow down and worship at the shrine of the men who died for the sake of liberty, and day by day they grow to disrespect us, their parents who have made no blow for freedom.

But it will not always be thus! COURTS OF JUSTICE.
"Colored men are excluded from the jury box; colored lawyers are discriminated against at the bar; and negroes, with the highest legal attainments, are not allowed to even dream of mounting the seat of a judge.
"Before a court that has been lifted into power by the very hands of prejudice, justice need not be expected.

The creature will, presumably, serve its creator; this much the creator demands.
"We shall mention just one fact that plainly illustrates the character of the justice to be found in our courts.
"If a negro murders an Anglo-Saxon, however justifiably, let him tremble for his life if he is to be tried in our courts.

On the other hand, if an Anglo-Saxon murders a negro in cold blood, without the slightest provocation, he will, if left to the pleasure of our courts, die of old age and go down to his grave in perfect peace.
"A court that will thus carelessly dabble and play in puddles of human blood needs no further comment at my hands.
MOB LAW.
"The courts of the land are the facile instruments of the Anglo-Saxon race.

They register its will as faithfully as the thermometer does the slightest caprice of the weather.