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I seek to save the Senate from participation in an irrational and degrading pretension.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I seek to save the Senate from participation in an irrational and degrading pretension.”
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Sumner aims to protect the Senate from endorsing irrational and degrading ideas.
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