Now that disloyalty, in the acknowledged name of a distant traitor, intrudes into this sanctuary of the Constitution, and insists upon a place at our altar, there should be indignant chastisement, swift as the angelic horseman that moves immortal in the colors of Raffaelle.
In this statement, Sumner calls for a strong and immediate response to disloyalty, likening it to a sacred duty to uphold the Constitution.
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