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Seeing the object before us, he raises no question of State rights, presents no claim of State taxation, makes no plea for State banks.
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Sumner notes that the Governor of Massachusetts does not raise issues of state rights or taxation in support of the national currency.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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