Frederick Douglass: “No vindication could be more complete, no condemnation could be more…”

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No vindication could be more complete, no condemnation could be more absolute and humiliating.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts the completeness of the vindication against the President's actions, emphasizing the gravity of the condemnation.

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