And custom is now fully reconciled at this capital to the seating side by side of white and colored people in the railway car, the jury-box, the municipal and Government offices, in the city councils, and even in the Halls of the two Houses of Congress.
Sumner notes that societal customs have evolved to accept the integration of races in various public spaces.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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