"All the space between my mind and the mind of God is full of truths waiting to be crystallized into law for the government of the masses."—T. Parker.
"In this country all men and all classes are equal. No man can law fully say to another, 'Stand aside, I am holier than thou,' and push him from his place on the platform of the Constitution. Superior sanctity is not a thing to be safely believed: it is easily simulated; it is often false; and when it comes into politics, it is almost universally put on to cover some base and malicious design. The Scribes and the Pharisees were hypocrites."—J. Black.
"It is true, also, that court sycophants and party hacks have many times written pamphlets, and perhaps large volumes, to show that those whom they serve should be allowed to work out their bloody will upon the people. No abuse of power is too flagrant to find its defenders among such servile creatures. Those butchers' dogs, that feed upon garbage and fatten upon the offal of the shambles, are always ready to bark at what ever interferes with the trade of their masters."—Id.
"One melodious synopsis of man and nature.”—Carlyle.
"Human error walks in a cycle, and reappears at intervals."—Id.
"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that, though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights,which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."—Jefferson.
"I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light. This was my sincere endeavor, in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success."—Swift.
The student was somewhat puzzled to discover what relevancy the patients of political parties had to the question of civil rights, and the sarcastic reviewer, seeing a shade of doubt flit across his countenance, smilingly said,—
"You must pardon my mixed metaphors and apparent digressions. I wanted to explain to you that, if there is a sick patient in this country, in our opinion, it is the civil-rights man; but, you see, he does not yet belong to any of the old nor is he a member of either of the modern great parties of the country,
