Charles Sumner: “How easy to see that these men should have been admonished frankly and kindly to return home, there to plant, plough…”

“How easy to see that these men should have been admonished frankly and kindly to return home, there to plant, plough, sow, reap, buy, sell, and be prosperous, but not to expect any place in the copartnership of government until there was completest security for all!”