Charles Sumner: “And therefore I am brought to the precise point, that, whatever the rank of our country in the world, and how much…”

“And therefore I am brought to the precise point, that, whatever the rank of our country in the world, and how much soever we may be entitled, at all courts where our representatives are, to the highest precedence, yet, such is human nature, our position is impaired by the title of the agent we send.”