Charles Sumner: “Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night,” as the outrage proceeds; for the candidate gravely asks…”

“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night,” as the outrage proceeds; for the candidate gravely asks international recognition of the claim to hold property in man, to sell wife away from husband, to sell child away from parent, to shut the gates of knowledge, to appropriate all the fruits of another’s labor.”