Sumner, always sensitive to any recognition of Slavery, saw in it an effort to commit Congress the wrong way, so that inaction on Slavery should be the policy of the war, when, to his mind, the sooner Slavery was attacked, the better.
Sumner critiques a resolution he believes undermines the fight against slavery during the war.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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