Charles Sumner: “We should join with Washington in his exclamation to Lafayette, on learning that this philanthropic Frenchman had…”

“We should join with Washington in his exclamation to Lafayette, on learning that this philanthropic Frenchman had purchased an estate in Cayenne, with the view of emancipating the slaves on it: "Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country!”