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When Senators, even as powerful as the Senator from Ohio and the Senator from Nevada, take a course which seems to me inconsistent with the national security, they must not expect me to follow.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “When Senators, even as powerful as the Senator from Ohio and the Senator from Nevada, take a course which seems to me…”
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Sumner refuses to follow Senators whose actions he believes threaten national security.
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