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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