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THE TIN HORN DEFENSE
Looking back at our catalogue of adversities, I get mighty darn hot in the collar to hear some well-meaning and loudly-vocal person go careering around the country and orate as per this formula: "Should foreign hirelings assail the integrity of this Republic, one blast upon the bugle trump of Freedom and a million patriots will spring to arms over night!" Spring to arms. What
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