To do less would be more than cruel, it would be murderous;--the agency which created the condition was bound by all law and precedent to see that those conditions were maintained in their entirety.

It could not evade the issue except at the expense of dignity, consistency and humanity.

There was but one honorable course to pursue.

Any other would be a horrible abandonment of principle.

If it were powerful to create, to make free men and citizens, it must, manifestly, be powerful to insure the enjoyment of the freedom conferred, and protect the inviolability of the franchise granted.