I have never wished to obtrude myself on their society, so that certain Senators could do with me, as they have boasted they did with others,--refuse to receive their advances, or refuse to recognize them on the floor of the Senate.
Sumner discusses his reluctance to impose himself on Southern Senators, reflecting on their past behavior.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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