Charles Sumner: “Proceeding with the dissection, I now exhibit the proposition, not only as a concession to State Rights, which is…”

“Proceeding with the dissection, I now exhibit the proposition, not only as a concession to State Rights, which is admitted by a Louisiana supporter, but, if unhappily adopted, as the constitutional recognition of an Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Caste, and Monopoly founded on color.”