Surely no swiftness of surrender can make you abandon Maryland, now redeemed by votes of citizen soldiers,--nor West Virginia, received as a Free State,--nor Missouri, which has been made the dark and bloody ground.
Sumner argues that certain states, redeemed by the efforts of citizen soldiers, cannot be abandoned.
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