WTF!!!
I've never heard of that before, that is in no way legal.
If that is true it needs to be exposed and stopped right now!
Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, next obtained the floor.
Referring to the speech of Mr. Rogers, he said: “ I wish to make another extract from the speech of the gentleman from New Jersey.
He said,’ If you pass this bill, you will allow negroes to compete for the high office of the President of the United States.’ You will actually allow them to compete for the Presidency of the United States!
As for this fear which haunts the gentleman from New Jersey, if there is a negro in the country who is so far above all the white men of the country that only four millions of his own race can elect him President of the United States over twenty-six millions of white people, I think we ought to encourage such talent in the country.
History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States
By William Horatio Barnes