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And you have now in this usurpation of the Senate an attempt to break into the telegraph-offices of the United States.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And you have now in this usurpation of the Senate an attempt to break into the telegraph-offices of the United States.”
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Sumner criticizes the Senate's overreach into private communications.
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