If he has correctly stated that it is verbatim copied from the petition presented by his colleague, I say it is a prostitution of their office to the embrace of political party; and the Senate shall not, by my assent, be made the medium of so unholy an alliance.
Sumner expresses his strong opposition to the political misuse of a petition by the Senate.
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