Charles Sumner: “The State, once tasting this blood, sees only an easy way of obtaining…”

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The State, once tasting this blood, sees only an easy way of obtaining the means it desires; and other States will yield to the same temptation.

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Massachusetts

Source

He warns that once a state begins taxing commerce, it will be tempted to continue and expand such practices.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “The State, once tasting this blood, sees only an easy way of obtaining the means it desires; and other States will yield…”