Charles Sumner: “Death, with inexorable scythe, has mowed down the authors of this compact; but, with conservative hour-glass, the dread…”

“Death, with inexorable scythe, has mowed down the authors of this compact; but, with conservative hour-glass, the dread destroyer has counted out a succession of years, which now defile before us, like so many sentinels, to guard the sacred landmark of Freedom.”