If a full-blooded negro were sent in that capacity from either of those countries, by the Laws of Nations he could demand that he be received precisely on the same terms of equality with the white representatives from the powers of the earth composed of white people.
Sumner argues for the equal treatment of diplomatic representatives regardless of race.
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