a footnote to history-第42节
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shadows appropriately the house of a king who reigns in right of
it。 If this be all; it should not trouble us long。 Germany has
shown she can be generous; it now remains for her only to forget a
natural but certainly ill…grounded prejudice; and allow to him; who
was sole king before the plenipotentiaries assembled; and who would
be sole king to…morrow if the Berlin Act could be rescinded; a
fitting share of rule。 The future of Samoa should lie thus in the
hands of a single man; on whom the eyes of Europe are already
fixed。 Great concerns press on his attention; the Samoan group; in
his view; is but as a grain of dust; and the country where he
reigns has bled on too many august scenes of victory to remember
for ever a blundering skirmish in the plantation of Vailele。 It is
to him … to the sovereign of the wise Stuebel and the loyal
Brandeis; … that I make my appeal。
MAY 25; 1892。
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