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Can we confess that a great government of the world must fold its arms, and see a foreign enemy--for such it is--crossing the sea and invading our shores, yet we unable to meet it?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Can we confess that a great government of the world must fold its arms, and see a foreign enemy--for such it…”
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Sumner expresses disbelief that a powerful nation would remain passive in the face of foreign invasion.
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