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I think we all agree that an ordinance of secession passed by any State of the Union is simply a nullity because it encounters the Constitution of the United States which is the supreme law of the land.
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Blaine asserts that any ordinance of secession is invalid under the Constitution of the United States.
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In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
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.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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