Clearly, the Rebels, by utmost effort, could not impair the national jurisdiction; but it remains to be seen if their enmity did not act back with fatal rebound upon those very State Rights in behalf of which they commenced their treason.
Sumner suggests that the efforts of the Rebels to assert State Rights ultimately backfired and harmed those very rights.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
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