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... Civil war. Dead rags he had seldom noted a gentleman so fat and one so well dressed. “It is true,” said... denounced it as “an unholy war” into which President James K. Polk was leading the na- ! A laugh is worth... who held in his hands a Denver newspaper. One look at the screaming headlines told the story: “War... the “pomp and circumstance of war”—the surrender of a British army. But, nearby, the smooth,' green sod... war might be expected as the result of affronts the French felt they had received at the hands