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I characterized, on the floor of the Senate, the assault upon my colleague as ‘brutal, murderous, and cowardly.’ I thought so then: I think so now: I have no qualification whatever to make in regard to those words.
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Sumner reiterates his strong condemnation of the violent assault on his colleague, maintaining his stance without hesitation.
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