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Will the Republic stay and dispense to their inhabitants the blessings of liberty, education and free institutions, or steal away, leaving them to anarchy or imperialism?
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Boutwell questions whether the U.S. will provide liberty and education to the inhabitants of its territories or abandon them to chaos.
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