law, the instrument by which tyranny XXX PARTY PORN riveted the chains XXX PARTY PORN upon its victims, had revolted XXX PARTY PORN now
and then against the senseless and unnatural prejudice by which a race ascribing its superiority to right of blood permitted a mere suspicion of servile blood to outweigh a XXX PARTY PORN vast preponderance of its own.
"Why, indeed, should he not be a lawyer, or
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anything else that a man might be, if it be in him?" asked the XXX PARTY PORN judge, speaking rather to himself than to the boy. " Sit down," he ordered, pointing to a chair on the other side of the room. That he should ask a colored lad to be seated in his presence was of itself enough to stamp the judge as eccentric. "You want to be a lawyer," he went on, adjusting his spectacles. "You are aware, of course, that you are a negro?"
"I am white," replied the lad, turning back his sleeve and holding out his arm, "and I am free, as all my people were before me.&XXX PARTY PORN quot;
The XXX PARTY PORN old lawyer shook his head, and fixed his eyes XXX PARTY PORN upon the lad with a slightly quizzical smile. "You are black," he said, "and XXX PARTY PORN you are not free. You cannot travel without your papers; you XXX PARTY PORN cannot secure accommodations at an inn; you could XXX PARTY PORN not vote, if you were of age; you cannot be out after nine o'clock without a permit. If a white man struck you, you could not return the blow, and you could not testify against him in a court of justice. You XXX PARTY PORN are black, my lad, and you are not XXX PARTY PORN free. Did you ever hear of the Dred Scott decision, delivered by the great, wise, and learned XXX PARTY PORN Judge Taney?"
"No, XXX PARTY PORN XXX PARTY PORN sir," answered XXX PARTY PORN the boy.
"It is too long to read," rejoined the judge, taking up the pamphlet he had laid down upon the lad's entrance, "but it says in substance, as quoted
by this author, that negroes XXX PARTY PORN are beings 'of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political
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relations; in XXX PARTY PORN fact, so XXX PARTY PORN inferior that they have no rights which the white man is bound to respect, and that the