If, as the Bible says, we are men; if, as Jefferson says, all men are equal; if, as he further states, governments derive all just powers from the consent of the governed, then it follows that the American government is in duty bound to seek to know our will as respects the laws and the men who are to govern us.
"But instead of seeking to know our will, they employ every device that human ingenuity can contrive to prevent us from expressing our opinion.

The monarchial trait seems not to have left their blood.

They have apparently chosen our race as an empire, and each Anglo-Saxon regards himself as a petty king, and some gang or community of negroes as his subjects.
"Thus our voice is not heard in the General Government.

Our kings, the Anglo-Saxons, speak for us, their slaves.

In some states we are deprived of our right to vote by frauds, in others by violence, and in yet others by statutory enactment.