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God knows, I do not wish to speak unkindly or in a spirit of revenge; but I owe it to my manhood, and the noble State I in part represent, to express my deep abhorrence of the act.
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Sumner expresses his abhorrence of a violent act while striving to maintain a sense of decorum.
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