Beginning with a caste as offensive and irreligious as that of Hindostan, and adding to it the pretensions of an oligarchy in government, the representatives of the old system were preparing to trample upon an oppressed race.
Sumner warns of the dangers posed by a caste system and oligarchy that threaten to oppress African Americans.
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