The Undersigned were appointed a committee at the civil rights mass meeting, held in Washington, D.C., December 19, and instructed to present to your earnest attention the following memorial and resolutions To the honorable members of the Forty-second Congress, of all parties: Respected sirs: We are aggrieved by being invidiously proscribed. ... The people, in their late national convention, which assembled at Philadelphia, at Cincinnati, and at Baltimore, affirmed that we, as well as all other citizens, should be protected in equality before the law. The people in the late election ratified this declaration

"The Undersigned were appointed a committee at the civil rights mass meeting, held in Washington, D.C., December 19, and instructed to present to your earnest attention the following memorial and resolutions To the honorable members of the Forty-second Congress, of all parties: Respected sirs: We are aggrieved by being invidiously proscribed. ... The people, in their late national convention, which assembled at Philadelphia, at Cincinnati, and at Baltimore, affirmed that we, as well as all other citizens, should be protected in equality before the law. The people in the late election ratified this declaration"@en
"The Undersigned were appointed a committee at the civil rights mass meeting, held in Washington, D.C., December 19, and instructed to present to your earnest attention the following memorial and resolutions: : To the honorable members of the Forty-second Congress, of all parties: Respected sirs: We are aggrieved by being invidiously proscribed. ... The people, in their late national convention, which assembled at Philadelphia, at Cincinnati, and at Baltimore, affirmed that we, as well as all other citizens, should be protected in equality before the law. The people in the late election ratified this declaration"@en