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Elsewhere I have vindicated them; and I have never been answered, except by the phrase that a State cannot go out of the Union: as if, in presence of the fact of rebellion, this was anything more than a phrase.
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Sumner reflects on the lack of effective responses to his arguments about state rebellion, dismissing counterarguments as mere phrases.
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