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It almost shocks me to think that the President of the United States is to be dragged out of his office on these miserable little questions whether he could make an ad interim appointment for a single day.
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Sumner expresses shock at the trivial nature of the questions surrounding the President's impeachment.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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