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Now I tell the Senator, and I beg him to understand it for the future, that I shall not allow him to elevate himself above me in any loyalty to the Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Now I tell the Senator, and I beg him to understand it for the future, that I shall not allow him to elevate himself…”
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Sumner asserts his equal loyalty to the Constitution in response to another senator's claims.
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