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Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this House imputed as a crime.
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Sumner expresses his regret over the perception that exercising free speech is a crime in the House.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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