Thus, Sir, throughout our history, you have used these men for defence of the country, you have coined their blood into your own liberties; but you deny them now the smallest liberty of all,--the last which is left to the miserable,--the liberty to pray.
In this powerful statement, Sumner criticizes the hypocrisy of using colored men for defense while denying them basic liberties.
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