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This resolution was never called up for consideration, but it stands on the Journal of the Senate in perpetual testimony of the assumption of the Slave Power and its tyrannical hardihood.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “This resolution was never called up for consideration, but it stands on the Journal of the Senate in perpetual testimony…”
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Sumner highlights a resolution that symbolizes the oppressive nature of the Slave Power.
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