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Dismemberment on this account would be only another form of retaliation; but retaliation is barbarous.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Dismemberment on this account would be only another form of retaliation; but retaliation is barbarous.”
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Sumner argues that dismemberment as a form of retaliation is a barbaric act.
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