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Charles Sumner: “They tell me that without some such provision the grossest injustice will be done.”

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They tell me that without some such provision the grossest injustice will be done.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses concern that without certain provisions, severe injustices will occur.

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