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Charles Sumner: “Maritime Rights were repudiated, and her Admiralty Courts have ever since enforced this repudiation.”

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Maritime Rights were repudiated, and her Admiralty Courts have ever since enforced this repudiation.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner states that maritime rights were rejected, leading to a long-standing enforcement of this rejection by British courts.

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