He was an attentive reader of the debates of the Senate, and he had seen that every step you had taken was a step upward, and that they who had affected to contemn were at length driven into a tacit acknowledgment of their very great error.
Sumner notes that a colleague's progress in the Senate has led to a recognition of their previous errors by critics.
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