The lawyer is a white man, and the husband of a colored wife.

I cannot promise you, therefore, that they will be retained, however capable and efficient they may be.

So far as I am personally concerned, it would make no material difference; I should just as lief retain them as any of the others.

But I cannot afford to antagonize public opinion in my State on the question of amalgamation.
One of these men, the white lawyer, is from my own State, where he is well known.

His case is recent, and fresh in the public mind.