The professors of “law and order” allowed the murderer to escape, and, still further to illustrate the irony of the name they assumed, seized the friend of the murdered man, whose few neighbors soon rallied for his rescue.
Sumner criticizes the hypocrisy of those who claimed to uphold law and order while allowing injustice to prevail.
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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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