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The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be eradicated but by the dissolution of the Union.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be…”
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Quincy asserts that the principles of the Declaration of Independence are foundational to the American Union.
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