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Charles Sumner: “Aranda, the Spanish statesman and diplomatist, predicts to his king that the United States, though born a “pygmy,” will…”

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Aranda, the Spanish statesman and diplomatist, predicts to his king that the United States, though born a “pygmy,” will some day be a “colossus,” under whose influence Spain will lose all her American possessions except only Cuba and Porto Rico.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner cites Aranda's prediction about the future power of the United States and its impact on Spain.

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