I have never asked or desired an increase thereof, as I was receiving a suitable salary as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States,--while my colleagues have very properly received a much larger sum, and of late years more than double my own.
Sumner explains his contentment with his salary despite it being lower than his colleagues'.
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