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The new Government had hardly been inaugurated before it was disturbed by the pestilent pretension of State Rights, which has never ceased to disturb it since.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The new Government had hardly been inaugurated before it was disturbed by the pestilent pretension of State Rights…”
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Sumner notes that the issue of State Rights has been a persistent disturbance since the inception of the new government.
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