Nothing can be clearer in the light of reason--and I say also of the Constitution--than that it is the duty of the Senate to meet disloyalty on the threshold,--to say to it, wherever it first shows itself, that this Chamber is no place for it.
Sumner emphasizes the Senate's responsibility to reject disloyalty at its entrance.
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