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To tear them, then, from our possession is, at the same time, an insult and an injury.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “To tear them, then, from our possession is, at the same time, an insult and an injury.”
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Beveridge describes the act of forcibly taking individuals as both insulting and injurious.
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