‘To an impartial mind, it is a little strange to see your dignity so offended by a score of prisoners. You, who have so willingly stuffed your holds with French and Spanish prisoners, to take such exception to a few of your own countrymen, whom you have always rated much higher than any foreigner, and who in any case would never be brought into contact with you, being under the conduct of proper persons.’ ‘They are completely different. Prisoners of war and gaolbirds are completely different.’ ‘The deprivation of liberty is still the same: the subhuman almost servile status. We have both been
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