Charles Sumner: “Never, while a sufferer, did anybody hear me speak of him in unkindness; and now, after the lapse of more than half a…”

“Never, while a sufferer, did anybody hear me speak of him in unkindness; and now, after the lapse of more than half a generation, I will not unite with you in dragging him from the grave, where he sleeps, to aggravate the passions of a political conflict, and arrest the longing for concord.”