Charles Sumner: “For this moment, at least, let us tread under foot all pride of empire, all exultation in our manifold triumphs of…”

“For this moment, at least, let us tread under foot all pride of empire, all exultation in our manifold triumphs of industry, science, literature, with all the crowding anticipations of the vast untold Future, that we may reverently bow before the Forefathers.”