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And has it come to this, that the President of the Great Republic, instead of carrying peace and good tidings to Africans commencing the experiment of self-government, should become to them an agent of terror?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And has it come to this, that the President of the Great Republic, instead of carrying peace and good tidings to…”
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Sumner questions the role of the U.S. President in potentially instilling fear rather than support in newly self-governing African nations.
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