Charles Sumner: “I blame men who are eager to admit into the Family of Nations a state which offers itself to us, based upon a principle…”

“I blame men who are eager to admit into the Family of Nations a state which offers itself to us, based upon a principle, I will undertake to say, more odious and more blasphemous than was ever heretofore dreamed of in Christian or Pagan, in civilized or in savage times.”