I say it contains an odious and offensive principle; and I doubt if the Senator from Iowa would undertake to say that an exclusion from rights on account of color would be properly characterized otherwise than as odious and offensive.
Sumner condemns a specific principle in a constitution as odious and offensive, questioning its justification.
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