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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
At home, I am known to be of those, who long ago foresaw and early withstood the coming of this anti-slavery agitation.
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of peti... (more Caleb Cushing quotes)
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