Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraor… — Caleb Cushing

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 petition inherent in the People of the United States.

Caleb CushingDiplomat · American · 1800 – 1879

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