Charles Sumner: “I say Crime, and deliberately adopt this strongest term, as better…”

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I say Crime, and deliberately adopt this strongest term, as better than any other denoting the consummate transgression.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner chooses the term 'Crime' to emphasize the severity of the transgression he discusses.

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Charles Sumner: “I say Crime, and deliberately adopt this strongest term, as better than any other denoting the consummate transgression.”