yer, is from my own State, where he is
well known. His case is recent, and fresh in the public mind. So far as
he is concerned, I can see no escape. With the colored physician it may
be different. He is not from my State and is not known in the State. I
doubt very much if anyone in the State knows anything about him, or is
aware of the fact that the position occupied by him is under my
department. If attention is not called to his case, I shall let him
alone.

"But with the lawyer it is different. A representative of a Mississippi
newspaper that is unfriendly to me is now on the ground. He has a list
of all the Republicans,--especially the colored ones,--holding positions
in this department. The name of this lawyer is on that list. It is the
intention of the faction his paper represents to bring pressure to bear
upon me to force me to turn all of these men out of office for political
reasons, regardless of their official standing. But, so far as your
friends are concerned, I shall defy them except in the case of this
lawyer, and also in the case of this physician if attention is called to
him. In their cases, or either of them, I shall be obliged, for reasons
already given; to yield."

Strange to say, attention was never called to the case of the physician
and he remained in office during the whole of Mr. Cleveland's first
administration. I made a strong appeal to the Secretary in behalf of my
friend, the white lawyer. I said in substance:

"Mr. Secretary, you ought not to allow this deserving man to be punished
simply because he was brave enough to legally marry the woman of his
choice. You know him personally. You know him to be an able and
brilliant young man. You know that he is now discharging the responsible
duties of the position which he occupies in your department with credit
to himself, and to the satisfaction of his official superiors. You know
that you have not a better nor a more capable official connected with
the public service than you have in this able young man. Under these
circumstances it is your duty, as the responsible head of your
department, to protect him and his estimable family from this gross
wrong,--this cruel injustice. For no one knows better than you do, Mr.
Secretary, that this alleged opposition to amalgamation is both
hypocritical and insincere. If a natural antipathy existed between the
two races no law would be necessary to keep them apart. The law, then,
against race intermarriag