Charles Sumner: “If not partnership, there is complicity on the part of Congress…”

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If not partnership, there is complicity on the part of Congress, through which the whole country has become responsible for the manifold wrong.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that Congress shares responsibility for the wrongs committed against individuals in society.

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Charles Sumner: “If not partnership, there is complicity on the part of Congress, through which the whole country has become responsible…”