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Vive Napoléon! … After the brave talk and the congratulations to Wilkes by both Cabinet and Congress, it would be to the last degree pusillanimous to retreat.
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Sumner expresses a strong sentiment against retreating from a position of strength, referencing Napoleon and the political climate of the time.
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