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Charles Sumner: “Surely, on every principle of reason or evidence, the insignificance of this loss, in transactions on so large a scale…”

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Surely, on every principle of reason or evidence, the insignificance of this loss, in transactions on so large a scale, and extending over three years of time, constitutes an unanswerable presumption in favor of the respondents, excluding, as it does, any adequate motive for the perpetration of fraud.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that the small loss suggests no motive for fraud in the larger transactions.

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