Charles Sumner: “There is no limitation in it, and nobody can supply any such limitation, without encountering the venerable maxim of…”

“There is no limitation in it, and nobody can supply any such limitation, without encountering the venerable maxim of law, Impius et crudelis qui Libertati non favet,--“Impious and cruel is he who does not favor Liberty.” Long enough have courts and Congress merited this condemnation.”