Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. 4. In the final paragraph of the excerpt, Frederick Douglass draws a comparison between American cruelty and the "monarchies and despotisms of the Old World." Why is this comparison particularly condemning? He ends the paragraph by concluding that "America reigns without a rival." Why is his word choice in this final clause particularly powerful? Support your answer with textual evidence. This comparasin Douglass makes