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Black, of Georgia, raising his bludgeon, and standing in front of my seat, said to me, ‘If you repeat that language again, I will knock you down.’ It was a solemn moment for me.
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Sumner describes a tense confrontation with a colleague, illustrating the hostility he faced in Congress.
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