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Why was it necessary, why did the ‘chivalry’ of South Carolina require, that for words uttered on this floor, under the solemn guaranties of Constitutional Law, a Senator should be met here by violence?
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Sumner questions the justification for violence against a senator for words spoken in the Senate.
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