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But, even with these precautions, privateering is usually accompanied by abuses and enormous excesses.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But, even with these precautions, privateering is usually accompanied by abuses and enormous excesses.”
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Sumner acknowledges that even with regulations, privateering often leads to significant abuses.
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