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And when the Rebellion broke forth, the same cry was raised against those great measures of self-defence by which Slavery, our real enemy, was assailed; and then at each stage of Reconstruction it was the same.
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He argues that the state rights argument was used to resist measures aimed at combating slavery during the Rebellion and Reconstruction.
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