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The Rebellion began in State Rights, and all opposition to the measures conceived to crush it is in the name of State Rights.
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He identifies state rights as the root of the rebellion and opposition to measures against it.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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