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It was disgraceful to a free country that such a system should be tolerated.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It was disgraceful to a free country that such a system should be tolerated.”
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Sumner expresses his outrage that a free nation would allow such a system of surveillance to exist.
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