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President, I have no desire to assail the Senator from South Carolina, or any other Senator in this body; but I wish to say now that we have had quite enough of this asserted superiority, social and political.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “President, I have no desire to assail the Senator from South Carolina, or any other Senator in this body; but I wish to…”
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Sumner expresses his opposition to the idea of social and political superiority among Senators.
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