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Commerce is hunted on the sea, and property, wherever it can be reached, ruthlessly robbed or destroyed.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Commerce is hunted on the sea, and property, wherever it can be reached, ruthlessly robbed or destroyed.”
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Sumner describes the devastation of commerce and property due to the conflict.
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