Charles Sumner: “I use strong language, but it is only in this way that I can fitly…”

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I use strong language, but it is only in this way that I can fitly characterize the doctrines of the Supreme Court and of the Senator.

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Sumner defends his strong language as necessary to describe the Supreme Court's doctrines.

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Charles Sumner: “I use strong language, but it is only in this way that I can fitly characterize the doctrines of the Supreme Court and…”