Charles Sumner: “If it were right in us toward Hayti, then might England, France…”

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If it were right in us toward Hayti, then might England, France, Spain, or Hayti herself do the same to us.

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Sumner asserts that if the U.S. can justify its actions towards Haiti, other nations could do the same.

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Charles Sumner: “If it were right in us toward Hayti, then might England, France, Spain, or Hayti herself do the same to us.”