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But Senators who are so swift in misrepresentation, and in assault upon me as disloyal to the Constitution, deserve to be exposed, and it shall be done.
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Sumner declares that senators who misrepresent his loyalty to the Constitution must be exposed, asserting his commitment to truth in political discourse.
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