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Charles Sumner: “Because the damages are national, because all suffered instead of one, this is no reason for immunity on her part.”

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Because the damages are national, because all suffered instead of one, this is no reason for immunity on her part.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that national damages should not exempt England from accountability.

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