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With kindred lawlessness it early embraced that extravagant dogma of State Rights which has been ever since the convenient cloak of treason and conspiracy.
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Sumner critiques the dogma of State Rights as a cover for treason and conspiracy.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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