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Albert Beveridge: “The execrations and yells against French cruelty and French ambition, are incessantly kept up by the hirelings of Great…”

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The execrations and yells against French cruelty and French ambition, are incessantly kept up by the hirelings of Great Britain and the enemies of liberty.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge comments on the propaganda against France, highlighting the manipulation of public sentiment by British interests.

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