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I avail myself of this, the earliest opportunity yet presented, to express my utter and strong condemnation, as one of the Representatives of the people, of the act of the Administration surrendering Mr.
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Sumner expressed his strong disapproval of the government's decision to surrender an individual to British demands.
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