They now had the opportunity, as citizens of a free Republic, to show the generous breadth of their statesmanship, and they did so by providing in their Constitution, that Congress should never possess the power to levy "a tax or duty on articles exported from any State.
He highlights the foresight of the Constitution in preventing Congress from taxing exports, promoting economic freedom.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
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