Charles Sumner: “Let but that life be sacrificed, and left unavenged, and the wounds of that defenceless head, like the foul witch’s blow…”

“Let but that life be sacrificed, and left unavenged, and the wounds of that defenceless head, like the foul witch’s blow on her enchanted image, are repeated on the radiant forehead of Liberty herself, and flaw the golden circlet we had vainly written with the sacred name of Union!”