The Senate itself is on trial just as much as the Senator; and permit me to say that the Senate will condemn itself, if it allow any person to continue among its members who has forfeited that peculiar confidence in his loyalty which is essential to his usefulness as Senator.
Sumner argues that the Senate itself is on trial alongside the accused Senator, emphasizing loyalty.
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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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