Charles Sumner: “His lenity toward our monster enemy showed itself unconsciously when he spoke of malignant Rebels as “those Southern…”

“His lenity toward our monster enemy showed itself unconsciously when he spoke of malignant Rebels as “those Southern gentlemen who had seceded,” and then again, when, at an earlier date, he spoke of “two civilizations”; but he bore kindly the reply, that civilization was only on one side.”