The succeeding year, the Governor of South Carolina, pressed by British forces, offered to stipulate the neutrality of his State during the war, leaving its permanent position to be decided at the peace: a premonitory symptom of the secession menaced in our own day.
Sumner draws a parallel between a historical offer of neutrality by South Carolina and the secessionist sentiments of his own time.
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