Charles Sumner: “I ask attention plainly and directly to the practical failure of…”

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I ask attention plainly and directly to the practical failure of justice which must arise without its adoption.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner calls for attention to the practical failures of justice that would occur without the proposed measure.

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Charles Sumner: “I ask attention plainly and directly to the practical failure of justice which must arise without its adoption.”