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Other towns, full as guilty as she was, have not had their ports blocked up.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Other towns, full as guilty as she was, have not had their ports blocked up.”
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Burke points out the inconsistency in punishing Boston while other equally guilty towns faced no such consequences.
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