Whether Texas was constitutionally or unconstitutionally annexed to the Union was no more to be decided by Massachusetts than the constitutionality of the prohibition of Slavery north of the Missouri line was to be decided by South Carolina.
Blaine asserts that the constitutionality of Texas's annexation is a matter not for Massachusetts to decide, just as the prohibition of slavery is not for South Carolina.
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