On the record
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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Sumner highlights the injustice of punishing innocent individuals for actions they did not commit.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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