Too much emphasis cannot be put upon the fact that the mercantile and financial interests were the weightiest of all the influences for the Constitution; the debtors and agricultural interests the strongest groups against it.
Beveridge emphasizes the significant influence of mercantile and financial interests in the push for the Constitution.
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That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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