Such a power as this--which, without the sanction of law, and merely at the will of a partisan majority, may be employed to ransack the most distant States, and to drag citizens before the Senate all the way from Wisconsin or from South Carolina--may be convenient, and to certain persons may seem to be necessary.
Sumner critiques the unchecked power of a partisan majority in Congress to summon citizens from distant states.
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