Charles Sumner: “At all events, is victory over a colony contending for independence…”

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At all events, is victory over a colony contending for independence worth the blood and treasure it will cost?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the value of victory over a colony fighting for its independence.

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Charles Sumner: “At all events, is victory over a colony contending for independence worth the blood and treasure it will cost?”