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As I listened to the Senator from Illinois, while he painfully strove to show that there is no Usurpation, I was reminded of the effort by a distinguished logician to prove that Napoleon Bonaparte never existed.
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Sumner uses a metaphor about Napoleon to illustrate the absurdity of denying the usurpation's existence.
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