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I think no candid person can have listened to that memorial without seeing that it contains statements with regard to which the Senate ought to be instructed before it proceeds to a vote.
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Sumner insists that the Senate must be informed before voting on important matters presented in the memorial.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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