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Charles Sumner: “But had the guaranty continued so as to constrain the United States throughout the long war that followed, ending at…”

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But had the guaranty continued so as to constrain the United States throughout the long war that followed, ending at Waterloo, what arithmetic can calculate the damage?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the ability to quantify the damages from a prolonged conflict under a guaranty.

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