Sumner addressed a letter to the President of the road, calling attention to the contumacy of the Company, and announcing his purpose, if it continued, to move, at the next session of Congress, the forfeiture of the charter.
In this letter, Sumner takes a firm stand against a railroad company's disregard for the law regarding racial equality.
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