Charles Sumner: “It wrung my heart, but what could I do?… Meantime let me thank you, as a servant of God and in the name of my brother…”

“It wrung my heart, but what could I do?… Meantime let me thank you, as a servant of God and in the name of my brother man, for your Worcester speech, which I have just read, for your magnificent broadside called the ‘Barbarism of Slavery,’ and for all your efforts to break every yoke and let the oppressed go free.”