On the record
I shall support the proposition, not because I concur with it, but because its adoption will help secure the approval of the bill that has so much occupied the attention of Congress and the hopes of the country.
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Sumner explains his support for a proposition not out of agreement, but to facilitate the passage of a significant bill.
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