One of her earliest acts of patriotism as an independent State was the cession to the General Government of her superb domain on the north side of the Ohio River, from the sale of which more than one hundred millions of dollars have been paid into the National Treasury.
Blaine highlights Virginia's early contributions to the National Government through land cessions.
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Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
But what if the feeling in any State against the United States should become so universal that the Federal officers themselves (including judges, district attorneys, and marshals) would be reached by the same influences, and resign their…
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