It is unpardonable to higgle over words and phrases, when, for more than two years, the tyrannical pretensions in evidence before the Senate have been manifest, as I shall show, in terrible, heart-rending consequences.
Sumner criticizes the focus on minor details when serious issues have been evident for years.
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