The mayor of Boston is also openly charged with violation of the primal principles of free institutions and of the law of the land, in surrendering the city for the time being into the possession of a military force, and thus establishing there that supremacy of arms under which all law is silent.
Sumner accuses the mayor of Boston of violating fundamental principles of law by submitting to military authority.
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