Charles Sumner: “That, Sir, is the great victory of the war; for in that are consummated all the victories of many bloody fields,--not…”

“That, Sir, is the great victory of the war; for in that are consummated all the victories of many bloody fields,--not one victory, or two, but the whole,--gleaming in those principles of Liberty and Equality which are now the pivot jewels of the Constitution.”