"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road."
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"I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.“
-Benjamin F. Wade
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