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I will not compare the arguments of the two gentlemen together; but I will say, in regard to the doctrine of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, that it has quite too much of repudiation in it for my creed.
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Quincy expresses his disapproval of the idea of repudiating debts during a debate.
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