But our recent Rebels undertake to play the part of Brahmins, and exclude citizens, with better title than themselves, from essential rights, simply on the ground of caste, which, according to its Portuguese origin (casta), is only another term for race.
Sumner critiques the exclusion of citizens from rights based on caste, emphasizing the racial implications of such actions.
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