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If a mountain in labor ever brought forth a mouse, it is this mountainous prosecution, whose only offspring yet crawling on earth is an allegation of loss to the United States of one hundred dollars!
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Sumner uses a metaphor to criticize the prosecution as overly exaggerated for a minor issue.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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