In treating the problem of the alien races the Republican document referred to the negro race by name, demanded equal justice for all men, and condemned the devices used by some States for Disfranchising the negro.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
8.-The Act Disfranchising Roman Catholics.
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston
But few have pretended that the present movement for disfranchisement in the South is for such a purpose; it has been plainly and frankly declared in nearly every case that the object of the Disfranchising laws is the elimination of the black man from politics.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois