I cannot account for the course of Senator Butler, and of South Carolina, except on the supposition, that, fearing certain charitable persons might think you were too severe in your comments on them, they hastened to prove they were worse than it had ever entered your imagination to conceive them to be.
Sumner critiques the actions of Senator Butler and South Carolina, suggesting they revealed their true nature.
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