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There are objections, originating chiefly in the baneful pretension of State Rights; but these objections are animated by prejudice rather than reason.
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Sumner critiques objections to Congressional power as being driven more by prejudice than by rational argument.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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