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It is a fact, as I understand, that he has been since arrested for treason, and is now in the hands of the law, charged with the highest crime known to justice, while the author still occupies a seat in the Senate.
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Sumner points out the disparity in legal consequences faced by individuals involved in treason during the Civil War.
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