Charles Sumner: “And, permit me to say, Sir, you brought Slavery into Congress, when you called upon us, as you have done even at this…”

“And, permit me to say, Sir, you brought Slavery into Congress, when you called upon us, as you have done even at this very session, to pay for slaves, and thus, in defiance of a cardinal principle of the Constitution, pressed the National Government to recognize property in man.”