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Candidate is raised for the United States Senate, and a resolution is presented to name a Committee appointed to enquire into the status of said candidates and in that resolution declare that as a body they will not support a man for the United States Senate "who is in favor of giving the negro any moral, social, or political rights" and when numbers freely discuss the Resolution they lay it on the table as one member said through "policy", and when the election came off member after member declared that they voted for certain candidate through "policy"; but that they wanted it distinctly understand that they were not in favor of "Vigorous testifying in court" and when a majority of such members are in their seats the criterion is that a true line of "policy" may be indicated.

When a prominent man before the public, addresses a public assembly and says: In order to show the government that we are all right, let us take the "Code of Massachusetts" and adopt it for our laws, and the government of the Freedmen, and