Know--and take it once for all--that it is, and ever has been, and ever will be, a fundamental maxim in our politics, that you are not to have any part or shadow or name of interest whatever in our state; that we look upon you as under an irreversible outlawry from our Constitution,--as perpetual and unalliable aliens.
This quote outlines a fundamental political principle regarding exclusion from the state and the perception of certain groups as outsiders.
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