His rude and brutal language and conduct should have excluded him from the Senate in the early days of the session, but he was permitted to retire without censure, after a long debate upon the terms of his proposed expulsion.
Sherman criticizes the Senate for allowing a Senator with a history of misconduct to remain.
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