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To overcome these pretensions, and stamp E Pluribus Unum ineffaceably upon the Republic, we contended in war; and now we surrender again to these tyrannical pretensions.
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Sumner argues that the sacrifices made during the war are being undermined by a return to tyrannical pretensions.
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