It provided for an indissoluble Union, a Union which should grow until it could relentlessly crush nullification and secession; for the States founded under it were the creatures of the Nation, and were by the compact declared forever inseparable from it.
Roosevelt describes how the ordinance ensured a strong and inseparable Union among the states.
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