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It is hard that these questions should now be complicated with a machination to annex a West India island by violence, and without any popular voice in its favor.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is hard that these questions should now be complicated with a machination to annex a West India island by violence…”
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Sumner condemns the violent annexation of a West India island without public support.
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