The Senator does not seem to see that any rule excluding a man on account of color is an indignity, an insult, and a wrong; and he makes himself on this floor the representative of indignity, of insult, and of wrong to the colored race.
Sumner condemns the Senator's stance, arguing that any rule excluding individuals based on color is an affront to dignity and rights.
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