The whites can meet, if they please, and such a meeting, called under such auspices, may vote to continue their unjust pretensions; but any vote by them will be, under the circumstances, little better than an absurdity.
Sumner critiques the legitimacy of a meeting that seeks to uphold unjust claims by whites.
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