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He thus closes this eminently practical letter: "The removal of our colored population is, I think, a common object, by no means confined to the slave States, although they are more immediately interested in it.
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Beveridge presents Marshall's closing thoughts on the importance of removing the colored population from the U.S.
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I do not think the greatest things have been done for the world by its bookmen.
The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.
The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
She was able to maintain her independence & must deserve to lose it if she permitted it to be wrested from her.
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