Charles Sumner: “One question, and only one, rises in our path,--and this simply because the national representatives have been so long…”

“One question, and only one, rises in our path,--and this simply because the national representatives have been so long drugged and drenched with Slavery, which they have taken in all forms, whether of dose or douche, that, like a long-suffering patient, they are still sunk under its influence.”