I insist, Sir, that you cannot sanction injustice here, especially you cannot sanction a prejudice founded on color, without quickening that prejudice, and sustaining it, wherever it now unhappily exists throughout our whole country.
Sumner insists that endorsing injustice in the Senate will perpetuate racial prejudice across the country.
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