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Its special object is to vindicate the power of the Senate over the offices committed to it according to existing law and Constitution.
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Sumner asserts that the bill aims to uphold the Senate's authority over certain offices.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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