But, as it bears upon the affairs of the nation, I am not willing to sit any longer here, and see other members from my own section of the country, or those who may be my successors here, made subject to any such law as the law of the duellist.
Quincy expresses his unwillingness to allow members of Congress to be subjected to laws that promote dueling.
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