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Charles Sumner: “Nay, more,--the innocent are sacrificed, and the guilty set at liberty.”

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Nay, more,--the innocent are sacrificed, and the guilty set at liberty.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner points out the injustice where the innocent are punished while the guilty go free.

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