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"If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power."
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"But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers."
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"If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power."
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