Charles Sumner: “The only question, then, was on the character of the document just read; and that I exhibited, compendiously, as…”

“The only question, then, was on the character of the document just read; and that I exhibited, compendiously, as whitewashing; and then my honorable friends rise, one after the other, and, like two lexicographers, proceed with a definition of “whitewash.” I do not accept their definition.”