Charles Sumner: “How vain to expect their sympathy and coöperation in the support of the National Government, if the President, by his…”

“How vain to expect their sympathy and coöperation in the support of the National Government, if the President, by his own mere will, and in the plenitude of kingly prerogative, can strike at the independence of the Black Republic, and degrade it in the Family of Nations!”