Charles Sumner: “What right have you to adopt any barbarous conduct because the…”

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What right have you to adopt any barbarous conduct because the barbarous enemy with whom you deal has set the example?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner challenges the justification of adopting barbaric methods in retaliation.

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Charles Sumner: “What right have you to adopt any barbarous conduct because the barbarous enemy with whom you deal has set the example?”