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Charles Sumner: “Full well he knew that national character could suffer only where fraud is maintained.”

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Full well he knew that national character could suffer only where fraud is maintained.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He argues that national character is compromised only when fraud is allowed to persist.

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