Charles Sumner: “With all the granting of legislation, it is solemnly proposed that…”

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With all the granting of legislation, it is solemnly proposed that good men shall suffer for acts in which they had no part.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the injustice of punishing innocent individuals for actions they did not commit.

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