Ames began to release his sentiment of Negro inferiority and began to push President grant “to buckle on his armor and begin to fight” for the civil rights of colored people. In Ames’ senator maiden speech he states his support of the Ku Klux laws or Force acts which provides federal enforcement of African American voting rights in the south and federal prosecution of violators of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments because he realized that white southerners still held hostility towards negro citizenship and suffrage. In a speech to his colleagues he warned them,“ hatred to the Union, treason, cannot be whipped out of men. Defeats, disasters, and humiliations are not likely to generate love for out Government…. The country makes a sad
