Charles Sumner: “If we were dealing with sporadic cases of treason, with simple sedition, or with a mere outbreak, our process would be…”

“If we were dealing with sporadic cases of treason, with simple sedition, or with a mere outbreak, our process would be limited by the Constitution; but with an enemy before us, lashed into fury and led on by “Até hot from Hell,” where is the limit to the powers to be employed?”