With imperious look, and in the style of Sir Forcible Feeble, that Senator undertakes to call in question my statement, that the Fugitive Slave Act denies the writ of Habeas Corpus; and in doing this, he assumes a superiority for himself, which, permit me to tell him now in this presence, nothing in him can warrant.
Sumner critiques a senator's challenge to his statement regarding the Fugitive Slave Act, asserting that the senator's position lacks justification.
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