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Such a surrender would begin in shame; but it would also begin, continue, and end in troubles and sorrows which no imagination can picture.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He warns that such a surrender would lead to unimaginable troubles and sorrows.

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