Charles Sumner: “I wish the treaty had been such as to afford a stronger example; but it must be accepted as the judgment of our country…”

“I wish the treaty had been such as to afford a stronger example; but it must be accepted as the judgment of our country at that time; and to my mind it is a practical denunciation of privateering, worthy of the illustrious character by whom it was negotiated, who was none other than Benjamin Franklin.”