It is plain that the ships which were built under the safeguard of this ill-omened Proclamation, which stole forth from the British shores and afterward enjoyed the immunities of British ports, were not only British in origin, but British in equipment, British in armament, and British in crews.
In this passage, Sumner argues that the ships built in Britain were fundamentally British in every aspect except for their commanders.
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