The madness that would set aside provisions so essentially just, whose only error is inadequacy, has broken forth naturally in brutal utterance, where he has charged persons by name with seeking his life, and has stimulated a mob against them.
This quote illustrates Sumner's view of the President's rhetoric as inciting violence and chaos.
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