Protest, argument, negotiation, correspondence, and war itself--unhappily the last reason of republics, as of kings--were all employed by the United States in vain to procure renunciation of the intolerable pretension.
Sumner lists the various methods employed by the United States to oppose British pretensions, highlighting the futility of these efforts.
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