Charles Sumner: “It was a most lamentable failure, and should prove a lesson to men who are so entangled in one idea that they imagine…”

“It was a most lamentable failure, and should prove a lesson to men who are so entangled in one idea that they imagine the wealth of the country and the blood of its sons are being poured out to perpetuate a party, instead of securing the safety of the Union and the Constitution.”