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It is the doctrine of the Federal Constitution that no State can go out of this Union.
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Blaine asserts the constitutional principle that states cannot secede from the Union.
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Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union 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.
Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
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