There has been but one instance in our history where a State has been divided, and the segregated portion been admitted into the Union as a State; and that is the case of West Virginia; but that admission was based on facts and conditions which every patriot hopes may never occur again.
Jacobs references the unique historical case of West Virginia's admission as a state after division from Virginia.
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