But I can well understand that a Secretary conceding belligerent rights to Rebel Slavery so easily, and then so easily permitting its ships to sally forth for piracy, would be very indifferent to the tone of what he wrote.
Sumner expresses his disdain for a Secretary's leniency towards Rebel Slavery and its implications for piracy.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Other voices in this conversation
