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Charles Sumner: “The Senator makes a mistake, when he deals his blow in the very Temple of Justice.”

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The Senator makes a mistake, when he deals his blow in the very Temple of Justice.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner criticizes a senator for undermining justice in a significant way, referring to the 'Temple of Justice.'

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