Charles Sumner: “This is a fearful prerogative, and permit me to say, that, in assuming it, you liken yourselves to the Jesuits, at the…”

“This is a fearful prerogative, and permit me to say, that, in assuming it, you liken yourselves to the Jesuits, at the period of their most hateful supremacy, when it was said that their power was a sword whose handle was at Rome and whose point was in the most distant places.”