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To tear them, then, from our possession is at the same time an insult and an injury.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To tear them, then, from our possession is at the same time an insult and an injury.”
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Sumner describes the act of forcibly taking sailors as both an insult and an injury to the nation.
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