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If there is any outrage at this moment in the form of law, and actually within our reach, it is what I now hold up to the indignation of the country and of mankind.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If there is any outrage at this moment in the form of law, and actually within our reach, it is what I now hold up to…”
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Sumner calls attention to a pressing legal outrage that he believes should be condemned by society.
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