President, I did not swear to support it as you understand it,--oh, no, Sir!--or as the Senator from Virginia understands it,--by no means!--or as the Senator from South Carolina understands it, with a kennel of bloodhounds, or at least a ‘dog’ in it, ‘pawing to get free his hinder parts,’ in pursuit of a slave.
Sumner critiques the differing interpretations of the Constitution by various senators, emphasizing his own understanding of it.
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