The familiar vindication of Slavery in those early debates was less sickening than the vindication now of the intolerable pretension, that a State, constituting part of the Nation, and calling itself “Republican,” is entitled to shut out any citizen from participation in government simply on account of race or color.
Sumner critiques the notion that states can exclude citizens based on race or color.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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