Charles Sumner: “Believe me, Sir, I should gladly leave this matter to the judgment already recorded, if it were not put in issue again…”

“Believe me, Sir, I should gladly leave this matter to the judgment already recorded, if it were not put in issue again by the extraordinary efforts, radiating on every line of office, to press its author for a second term as President; and since silence gives consent, all these efforts are his efforts.”