British Indian Empire

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    “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
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    “The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?”
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