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neys for the defendant, with bungling gaucherie
have analyzed and dissected, theorized and
synthesized with sublime ignorance or pathetic
misapprehension of counsel, from the black
client. One important witness has not yet been
heard from. The summing up of the evidence
deposed, and the charge to the jury have been
made—but no word from the Black Woman.
It is because I believe the American people
to be conscientiously committed to a fair trial
and ungarbled evidence, and because I feel it
essential to a perfect understanding and an
equitable verdict that truth from each stand¬
point be presented at the bar,—that this little
Voice has been added to the already full chorus.
The " other side" has not been represented by
one who " lives there." And not many can
more sensibly realize and more accurately tell
the weight and the fret of the " long dull
pain " than the open-eyed but hitherto voice¬
less Black Woman of America.
The feverish agitation, the perfervid energv,
the busy objectivity of the more turbulent
life of our men serves, it may be, at once to
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