We are Senators of the United States, bound to consider the whole country in all its extent, and to do nothing here which shall do mischief elsewhere; nor can we yield to any local pressure, or any imagined local interests, and thus forget the cause of justice.
Sumner stresses the responsibility of Senators to consider the nation's justice rather than local interests.
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