Accustomed to this effrontery, people do not see its ineffable absurdity, which is made conspicuous, if they simply consider the figure our fathers would have cut, had they declared the equal rights of white men, and not the equal rights of men.
Sumner critiques the absurdity of a government that only recognizes the rights of white men, rather than all men.
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