It will be, if consummated, one of the great political crimes in American history, to be classed with the Rebellion, with the attempt to take possession by fraud of the State Government of Maine, and with the overthrow of State Governments in the South, of which it is the fitting sequence.
Hoar compares a potential political act to historical crimes, emphasizing the gravity of the situation.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
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