See quotations.
1850. On railroads [the negroes] occupy the second-class car, and upon steamboats they are seated at the “second table.”—N.Y. Mirror, cited by Mr. Stanton: Cong. Globe, p. 500.
1856. The idea here conveyed is that, if we vote for Mr. Buchanan, we shall come in at the second table, and can never expect to sit at the first table.—Mr. Jones of Tennessee, U.S. Senate, Aug. 9: id., p. 2015.
