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Such, Sir, are the pretensions of New Jersey to interfere with commerce, passengers, mails, and troops from other States, on the way, it may be, to the National Capital, even with necessary succors at a moment of national peril.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner criticizes New Jersey's pretensions to interfere with interstate commerce during a time of national need.

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