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I know not, Sir, why my position on this question should justify the personalities which the Senator from Vermont considers so essential to debate.
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Sumner questions the need for personal attacks in political debate, advocating for a more respectful discourse.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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