“The very voluminous speech of Mr. Senator Sumner at the
Cooper Institute, the other evening, in two or three points
is a remarkable production. His exposure and denunciations
of the hypocritical pleadings and false pretences of the
British Government, in justification of its sneaking and
perfidious neutrality in this war, are well administered,
and, considering the rapidly dissolving Davis Confederacy,
these views of the learned Senator at this time can hardly
fail to make a decided sensation, not only upon the public
mind of England, but upon the rhinoceros hides of the
British Cabinet.…
“But the whole of this exhaustive and exhausting discourse
of the inexhaustible Senator is spoiled by his venomous and
rabid denunciations of African Slavery. In view of this
peculiar Southern institution he becomes as fierce and
remorseless as a vicious bull, when a piece of red flannel
is flaunted before his eyes.”