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And I know not why a distant citizen, charged with no offence, and in every right the peer of any office-holder, should be treated with less consideration.
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Sumner advocates for equal treatment of citizens, regardless of their distance from the Senate.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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