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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated…”
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Blaine warns that if states conquer each other, it undermines the foundational theory of their union.
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