It will be the wonder of posterity that a constitution absolutely free from all discrimination of color was so perverted in its construction as to sanction this discrimination,--as if such a wrong could be derived from a text which contains no single word even to suggest it.
Sumner reflects on the irony of a constitution that allows racial discrimination despite its lack of explicit language supporting it.
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