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The whole country is now paying with treasure and blood for that fatal surrender.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The whole country is now paying with treasure and blood for that fatal surrender.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner laments the heavy costs of the Civil War, attributing them to past mistakes regarding slavery.
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