Charles Sumner: “If all this accumulated disloyalty, beginning in a total renunciation of every patriotic duty, and finally consummated…”

“If all this accumulated disloyalty, beginning in a total renunciation of every patriotic duty, and finally consummated by an act of flagrant, unblushing enormity, is not “aid and comfort” or “countenance” or “encouragement” to the Rebellion, it is difficult to say what can be.”