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Plainly there can be no cession of territory, and especially no surrender of national independence, except as the result of war, so long as hostile cannon are frowning.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Plainly there can be no cession of territory, and especially no surrender of national independence, except as the result…”
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Sumner argues that territory cannot be ceded without the context of war, especially under threat.
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