"That," said he, "is its parallel." Mr.Doolittle criticized the use of the word "whitewashing," and asked Mr.Sumner to qualify it, but the Massachusetts senator declared that he had "nothing to modify, nothing to qualify, nothing to retract.

In former days there was one Kansas that suffered under a local power.

There are now eleven Kansases suffering as one: therefore, as eleven is more than one so is the enormity of the present time more than the enormity of the days of President Pierce." Later in the debate, Mr.Sumner indirectly qualified his harsh words, saying that he had no reflection to make on the patriotism or the truth of the President of the United States.
"Never in public or in private," said he, "have I made such reflection and I do not begin now.

When I spoke I spoke of the document that had been read at the desk.

I characterized it as I though I ought to characterize it." The distinction he sought to make was not clearly apparent, the only importance attaching to it being that Mr.Sumner had not yet concluded that a bitter political war was to be made upon the President of the United States.
The character of Mr.Schurz's report at once disclosed the reason of Mr.Sumner's anxiety to have it printed with the report of General Grant.