Speech #850100840

I refer to Indiana. as the Senator from Maryland ]Mr. Johnson] referred to his State the other day. as a mere mode of illustration. The policy of that State was to prevent the further immigration of colored people into the State after 1852. and as a means of preventing that we denied to the colored people who might come into the State after that date the right to acquire real estate. Suppose that during the past 13 years some colored man has come into the State of Indiana and has purchased real estate. He brings his action of ejectment after the passage of this law to recover that land.