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If such a transaction, many-headed in wrong, can escape judgment, it is difficult to see what securities remain.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If such a transaction, many-headed in wrong, can escape judgment, it is difficult to see what securities remain.”
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Sumner warns of the dangers of unpunished wrongdoing in governance.
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