A few more years, and the usurper and the man of violence will be left in undisputed possession of his blood-stained inheritance.

No man will attempt to deter him from sowing broadcast the seeds of revolution and death.

Brave men are powerless to combat this organized brigandage, complaint of which, in derision, has been termed "waving the bloody shirt." Men organize themselves into society for mutual protection.

Government justly derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.

But what shall we say of that society which is incapable of extending the protection which is inherent in it?
What shall we say of that government which has not power or inclination to insure the exercise of those solemn rights and immunities which it guarantees?
To declare a man to be free, and equal with his fellow, and then to refrain from enacting laws powerful to insure him in such freedom and equality, is to trifle with the most sacred of all the functions of sovereignty.
Have not the United States done this very thing?
Have they not conferred freedom and the ballot, which are necessary the one to the other?
And have they not signally failed to make omnipotent the one and practicable the other?
The questions hardly require an answer.