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Strip away all its presumptuous pretences, its specious apologies, its hideous sorceries.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Strip away all its presumptuous pretences, its specious apologies, its hideous sorceries.”
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Sumner urges the removal of false justifications for war.
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