Charles Sumner: “Adopt it, and you put millions of fellow-citizens under the ban of excommunication, you hand them over to a new anathema…”

“Adopt it, and you put millions of fellow-citizens under the ban of excommunication, you hand them over to a new anathema maranatha, you declare that they have no political rights “which the white man is bound to respect,”--thus repeating in new form the abomination that has blackened the name of Taney.”