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In doing it, I desire to warn certain Senators, that, if, by any ardor of menace, or by any tyrannical frown, they expect to shake my fixed resolve, they expect a vain thing.
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Sumner warns Senators that attempts to intimidate him will not succeed in changing his resolve.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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