Charles Sumner: “You have been constantly in my mind and heart since the attempt at your assassination, and I must tell you how much I…”

“You have been constantly in my mind and heart since the attempt at your assassination, and I must tell you how much I sympathize with the sentiments of your speech, how I glory in its genius, and how impossible it is for me to find words to express my rage and abhorrence in regard to the outrage that followed it.”