Charles Sumner: “The Committee, not content with what has been done,--distrustful, perhaps, of the commanding general,--propose that…”

“The Committee, not content with what has been done,--distrustful, perhaps, of the commanding general,--propose that Congress shall instruct the President to enter upon a system of retaliation, where we shall imitate as precisely as possible Rebel barbarism, and make our prisons the scenes of torments we here denounce.”