With inexhaustible tenacity, force, and resource, he laboured to hold up to men's imagination and to burn into their understanding the shame and dishonour of adopting a rule, not only unsound and false in principle, but which, if adhered to, would coerce a majority to yield to a minority.
Here, Alexander emphasizes the importance of resisting a political rule that undermines majority rights.
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Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
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This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
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