Charles Sumner: “In this tyrannical spirit, and in the assumption of his central imperialism, he has interfered with political questions…”

“In this tyrannical spirit, and in the assumption of his central imperialism, he has interfered with political questions and party movements in distant States, reaching into Missouri, and then into New York, to dictate how the people should vote, then manipulating Louisiana through a brother-in-law appointed Collector.”