The practical effect of such exclusion is, that any outrage by a white man on a colored person, if no other white person is present, must go unpunished; and the Senate of the United States refuses to interfere against this cruelty.
Sumner points out the dangerous consequences of excluding testimony from colored witnesses, which allows white perpetrators to escape justice.
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