Charles Sumner: “Yes! the government of the United States is now (let it be said with shame), not, as at the beginning, a government…”

“Yes! the government of the United States is now (let it be said with shame), not, as at the beginning, a government merely permitting, while it regretted Slavery, but a government openly favoring and vindicating it, visiting also with its displeasure all who oppose it.”