Charles Sumner: “The criminal also must be dragged into day, that you may see and…”

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The criminal also must be dragged into day, that you may see and measure the power by which all this wrong is sustained.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner insists on the necessity of revealing the criminal behind the injustices being perpetrated.

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Charles Sumner: “The criminal also must be dragged into day, that you may see and measure the power by which all this wrong is sustained.”