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“ON TO CANADA!”

Every freeborn American has an inalienable and constitutional right to shoot off his mouth whenever he gets ready, loaded with cannister, shrapnel, or blanks—generally blanks. Immediately the War of 1812 broke out, satchel-mouthed patriots raised the cry of “On to Canada!”

“On to Canada!” “On to Canada!” they shouted at every crossroads and every street

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