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An immense national debt, mourning families, widows and orphans, attest this terrible fact.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “An immense national debt, mourning families, widows and orphans, attest this terrible fact.”
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Sumner highlights the human cost of the war, including national debt and loss of life.
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