Sumner correctly appreciates the consequences of this course, as adopted by ourselves and France, in perceiving that it insured to the South the free exercise of all the power of making war from its own resources which an independent state could possess.
Sumner acknowledges the implications of foreign policy decisions on the South's military capabilities.
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