Charles Sumner: “And what instruction more bloody than the bombardment of a city, which…”

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And what instruction more bloody than the bombardment of a city, which now returns to plague the French people?

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Sumner critiques the bombardment of cities as a particularly bloody lesson that ultimately affects the aggressor's own people.

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Charles Sumner: “And what instruction more bloody than the bombardment of a city, which now returns to plague the French people?”