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The recognition of Rebel belligerence in France was wrong without injury; but that same recognition in England was wrong with injury, and it is of this unquestionable injury that we complain.
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He distinguishes between the wrongful recognition of Rebel belligerence by France and England, highlighting the injury caused by the latter.
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