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If anybody is to be sent away, let it be the guilty, and not the innocent.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If anybody is to be sent away, let it be the guilty, and not the innocent.”
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Sumner insists that only the guilty should be punished, not the innocent.
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