It is necessary to speak thus plainly of projects the offspring of that sectional agitation now prevailing in some of the States, which are as impracticable as they are unconstitutional, and which if persevered in must and will end calamitously.
Pierce critiques impractical and unconstitutional projects arising from sectional agitation, warning of dire consequences.
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