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Or has it come to this,--that it is right to be zealous in pressing a foreign Government, but not right to be zealous against ourselves, when substituted for that foreign Government, as in the present case?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Or has it come to this,--that it is right to be zealous in pressing a foreign Government, but not right to be zealous…”
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Sumner questions the inconsistency in the government's approach to foreign versus domestic responsibilities.
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