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Charles Sumner: “There is not one English paper that I have seen which has not either suppressed or falsified the material facts of this…”

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There is not one English paper that I have seen which has not either suppressed or falsified the material facts of this case, because they know, that, properly understood, they would not support the hostile feeling against this country the papers depended upon keeping up.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner accuses the English press of misrepresenting facts to maintain hostility towards the United States.

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