Charles Sumner: “I say, with all respect to the Senator, he might as well have quoted…”

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I say, with all respect to the Senator, he might as well have quoted anything else in the Constitution.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses his disagreement with a Senator's citation of the Constitution, suggesting it was irrelevant to the discussion.

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Charles Sumner: “I say, with all respect to the Senator, he might as well have quoted anything else in the Constitution.”