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God be thanked, you could not do it; and if you could, how it would brutalize our own people!
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “God be thanked, you could not do it; and if you could, how it would brutalize our own people!”
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Sumner expresses gratitude that Northern people would not engage in brutal treatment of prisoners.
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