The moment a foreigner ventures upon our soil, and utters a natural repugnance to oppression, that moment he is made to feel that there is little sympathy in this land for him.
Douglass observes that foreigners expressing natural opposition to oppression in America are met with hostility due to the nation's complicity with slavery.
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