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And now, at the end of an unparalleled war to abase State Rights, we are asked to naturalize in the Constitution a new provision confirming to the States an odious pretension, shocking to the moral sense.
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He criticizes the idea of embedding a provision in the Constitution that would support State Rights after a war against them.
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