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The Treasury can bear any additional burden better than the country can bear to do an injustice.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Treasury can bear any additional burden better than the country can bear to do an injustice.”
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Sumner argues that the financial burden of justice is preferable to the moral cost of injustice.
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