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By their undoubted service we are under perpetual obligation of doing to them as they did to us.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “By their undoubted service we are under perpetual obligation of doing to them as they did to us.”
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Sumner expresses a sense of obligation to repay those who have served the nation.
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