Teddy Roosevelt: “Standing alone the Kentuckians would have been laughed to scorn not…”

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Standing alone the Kentuckians would have been laughed to scorn not only by England and France, but even by Spain.

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Roosevelt asserts that without national support, the Kentuckians would have been dismissed by foreign powers as insignificant.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Standing alone the Kentuckians would have been laughed to scorn not only by England and France, but even by Spain.”