“Yesterday we received, under the frank of ‘C. Sumner,’ his
recent infamous speech at Worcester, Massachusetts. We use
the word _infamous_ advisedly, temperately; for viler or
more wilful and malicious slanders of a great, suffering,
and submissive people, vanquished in war by overwhelming
odds, but honestly accepting all the legitimate results of
their defeat, and patriotically anxious to resume their old
places in a full, restored Union, were never published to
the world by the filthiest political scavenger that ever
plied his trade in the foul services of party.”