They feel themselves to be but loose stones, thrown in to partially obstruct a current they are powerless to resist....
"This dense Negro crowd...

do the debating, the squabbling, the lawmaking, and create all the clamor and disorder of the body.

These twenty-three white men are but the observers, the enforced auditors of the dull and clumsy imitation of a deliberative body, whose appearance in their present capacity is at once a wonder and a shame to modern civilization....

The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the doorkeepers are black, the little pages are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal black.

At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo; whose costumes, visages, attitudes, and expression, only befit the forecastle of a buccaneer.