The Senator admits that in the highest council-chamber there is, and should be, perfect equality before the law; but descend into the hotel, on the railroad, within the common school, and there can be no equality before the law.
Sumner highlights the discrepancy between legal equality in government and the lack of equality in everyday life, such as in hotels and schools.
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