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But no person of ordinary intelligence will pretend that American citizens in the Pacific have received wrongs from these cannibals comparable in atrocity to those suffered by American citizens in Kansas.
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Sumner argues that the wrongs suffered by American citizens in Kansas are far more severe than those claimed against foreign cannibals.
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