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The Government becomes its tool, and in official acts does its bidding.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Government becomes its tool, and in official acts does its bidding.”
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Sumner claims that the government becomes a tool for those who perpetrate violence in the name of slavery.
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