Essay January 1867, The Atlantic

If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the white can have none in the eyes of the blacks. The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations.

There is something immeasurably mean, to say nothing of the cruelty, in placing the loyal negroes of the South under the political power of their Rebel masters.

There are so many more eloquent and still relevant passages in this old essay.

I say these criminals in power have no idea what it is to make America great. Examined properly, these mfkrs will be shown to be traitors and criminals,