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Unhappily, Sir, our country is engaged in war,--terrible, relentless, unquestionable war,--and if we would not discard success, it must be prosecuted as war, in the full exercise of belligerent rights.
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Sumner stresses the necessity of fully exercising belligerent rights in order to achieve success in the ongoing war.
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