On the record
He had just avowed his complicity in designs far more diabolical than those of Catiline or Cethegus,--nay, transcending in iniquity all that the genius of a Milton has attributed to his fallen angels.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “He had just avowed his complicity in designs far more diabolical than those of Catiline or Cethegus,--nay, transcending…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner accuses an opponent of engaging in profoundly immoral actions.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Other voices in this conversation
