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There are good steamers at New York, safe and sea-worthy, whose presence would not swell the array of war, nor subject the Great Republic to the grave imputation of seeking to accomplish its purpose by violence.
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Sumner advocates for the use of non-military vessels to avoid the perception of aggression by the United States.
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