I have likened this Bill to the Stamp Act, and I trust that the parallel may be continued yet further, by a burst of popular feeling against all action under it similar to that which glowed in the breasts of our fathers.
Sumner compares the current bill to the Stamp Act, hoping for a similar public backlash.
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