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They regret the result, and their non-success, it is true, but not one in a thousand will admit they were in the wrong.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “They regret the result, and their non-success, it is true, but not one in a thousand will admit they were in the wrong.”
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Sumner observes that while Southerners regret their defeat, they do not admit wrongdoing.
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