Charles Sumner: “I have no hesitation in saying that no other conclusion is possible without violence to the statute.”

As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.

They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.

Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.

Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.