It is not without pain and trouble that I find myself constrained to differ from valued friends and associates, with whom I am always proud to agree; but I cannot recognize a constitution with the word “white” as republican.
Sumner expresses his discomfort in opposing friends over the recognition of a constitution that includes racial discrimination.
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