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Germans fight as for fatherland, and Irishmen fight as for loved Erin; nor can our cause be less dear to the latter, now that the spirit of Grattan and O’Connell has entered into it.
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Sumner highlights the emotional ties that different ethnic groups have to their homelands while fighting for the Union.
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