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Whatever one signs he makes his own; and the Secretary, when he signed this document, adopted a libel upon his friend, and when he communicated it to the Senate he published the libel.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Whatever one signs he makes his own; and the Secretary, when he signed this document, adopted a libel upon his friend…”
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Sumner asserts that signing a document implicates one in its contents, particularly in a defamatory context.
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