I left the President that night with the painful conviction that his whole soul was set as flint against the good cause, and that by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the Rebellion had vaulted into the Presidential chair.
Sumner reflects on his disillusionment with the President's stance against the cause he supports after Lincoln's assassination.
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