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We have received in this Chamber a colored Senator from Mississippi; but according to the rule of the Senator from Georgia we should have put him apart by himself; he should not have sat with his brother Senators.
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Sumner points out the absurdity of segregating a colored Senator from Mississippi in the Senate.
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