Charles Sumner: “In passing such a bill as is now threatened, you scatter, from this dark midnight hour, no seeds of harmony and…”

“In passing such a bill as is now threatened, you scatter, from this dark midnight hour, no seeds of harmony and good-will, but, broadcast through the land, dragons' teeth, which haply may not spring up in direful crops of armed men, yet, I am assured, Sir, will fructify in civil strife and feud.”