By his side was the yet youthful Lafayette, seconding the demand, which he followed by proposing a Declaration of the Rights of Man, embodying not merely specific rights secured by precedent and practice, as in the English Bill of Rights, but the Rights of Man founded on Nature, and above all precedent or practice.
Sumner highlights Lafayette's role in proposing a Declaration of the Rights of Man, emphasizing natural rights over legal precedents.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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