Their philosophy seems to have been that the General Government had been paid in full by the privilege of nurturing new States, of improving their rivers and harbors, of building their fortifications, of protecting them in peace, of defending them in war.
Blaine critiques the philosophy of states regarding their obligations to the federal government.
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