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And in a few years we shall see with true grief the tyrannical existence of this same colossus of which I speak.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And in a few years we shall see with true grief the tyrannical existence of this same colossus of which I speak.”
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Sumner expresses a foreboding prediction about the rise of tyranny.
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