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Unquestionably the present war is his work, instituted for his imagined advantage.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Unquestionably the present war is his work, instituted for his imagined advantage.”
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Sumner holds a leader responsible for instigating a war for personal gain.
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