Charles Sumner: “If the rule is applicable in one sea, it is applicable in all seas…”

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If the rule is applicable in one sea, it is applicable in all seas, and there is no part of the ocean which may not be vexed by its enforcement.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that if a rule applies in one sea, it applies universally across all seas.

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Charles Sumner: “If the rule is applicable in one sea, it is applicable in all seas, and there is no part of the ocean which may not be…”