Charles Sumner: “This immortal state-paper, which for its composer was the aurora of enduring fame, was ‘the genuine effusion of the soul…”

“This immortal state-paper, which for its composer was the aurora of enduring fame, was ‘the genuine effusion of the soul of the country at that time,’ the revelation of its mind, when, in its youth, its enthusiasm, its sublime confronting of danger, it rose to the highest creative powers of which man is capable.”