I should like to ask him, if he will allow me, whether, in his judgment, the colored Representatives from Georgia and South Carolina in the other Chamber ought not on railroads and at hotels to have like rights with himself?
Sumner questions whether colored Representatives should have the same rights as others in public spaces, advocating for equality.
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