June 28th, Mr. Sumner moved the following amendment:--

“And in all proceedings under this Act there shall be no

exclusion of any witness on account of color.”

Mr. Clark, of New Hampshire, Chairman of the Select Committee,

said, that, “while they had no hostility to the general

principle of the amendment, they thought it was better not to

engraft it upon this bill.”

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