The rule may also be treated as belonging to that system of evidence which, in defiance of reason, undertook to declare in advance that certain classes of witnesses were incompetent to testify,--or, in other words, that the court and jury should not be permitted to hear what they had to say on the issue.
Sumner critiques a legal system that deems certain witnesses incompetent based on race, undermining justice.
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