The claimant may declare willingness to take it; but such declaration is not an answer to evidence showing disloyalty, unless you are ready to admit present professions to be a sufficient cloak for disloyalty, or, it may be, treason, in the past.
Here, Sumner argues that mere declarations of loyalty cannot override evidence of past disloyalty.
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