On the record
Such a case must make us fear, that, under this Act, justice may be sacrificed.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Such a case must make us fear, that, under this Act, justice may be sacrificed.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner expresses concern about the potential for injustice under a specific legal act.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Other voices in this conversation
