The Committee, not content with what has been done,--distrustful, perhaps, of the commanding general,--propose that Congress shall instruct the President to enter upon a system of retaliation, where we shall imitate as precisely as possible Rebel barbarism, and make our prisons the scenes of torments we here denounce.
Sumner criticizes the idea of Congress instructing the President to retaliate against enemy forces in a manner that mirrors their barbarism.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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