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We were not in a period of peace, and you err, if you undertake to hold these contractors to all the austere responsibilities proper in a period of peace.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “We were not in a period of peace, and you err, if you undertake to hold these contractors to all the austere…”
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Sumner argues that the responsibilities of contractors should be viewed differently during wartime than in peacetime.
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