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“If this bill [for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State] passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation,--amicably if they can, violently if they must.”
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- Speech
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- b41e8c542fb128e158d885f78859af65c042d74d1459ee38864f6dd3fb3e3edf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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