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What with the high rate of insurance, what with these captures, and what with the rapid transfer of tonnage to British capitalists, you have virtually made valueless that vast property.
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Sumner highlights the economic impact of foreign actions on American shipping and property values.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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