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This great government might well treat with indulgence paper secession, or the resolves of her convention and legislature, without invoking physical force to enforce the laws among her citizens.
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Sherman argues for a lenient approach to secession without immediate military action.
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The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
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