I could not help rejoining, that he need not be at Nashville, for at Washington his hand was on the long end of the lever with which he could easily move all Tennessee,--referring, of course, to the powerful, but legitimate, influence the President might exercise in his own State by the expression of his desires.
Sumner argues that the President has significant influence over Tennessee's affairs from Washington.
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