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Urged as a bill of peace, it was a swindle of the whole country.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Urged as a bill of peace, it was a swindle of the whole country.”
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Sumner denounces a bill that was presented as a peace measure but argues it was actually a deception against the nation.
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