President, let me not be unjust,--let me not lean even ungently against an offender; but you will pardon me, if I add, that against precise testimony, and in the face of unquestioned facts, I can find little in any present professions of loyalty to be accepted even in extenuation of the offence.
Sumner expresses a desire for fairness while also emphasizing the importance of evidence over mere professions of loyalty.
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