Charles Sumner: “Not only is the new power to take an independent place, but it is “to…”

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Not only is the new power to take an independent place, but it is “to change the system of Europe.” For all this its people are amply prepared.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the new power of America will significantly influence the European system.

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