If it be not treason in a Senator to send arms to an open traitor, whom he at the same time acknowledges in his traitorous character, then it were better to blot out the crime of treason from our statute-book, and to rase its definition from the Constitution.
Here, Sumner argues that aiding a known traitor is tantamount to treason, challenging the moral and legal boundaries of loyalty.
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