The Uprising of a Great People the United States in 1861
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It is because they are something else than a juxtaposition of States, that they comprise, by the side of a Senate in which all the States are equal, a House of Representatives, in which the number of deputies is in proportion to the population. " Oar Constitution, " wrote Madi- son, " is neither a centralized State nor a Federal Government, but a blending of the two. " Tlie ex- perience which they had had from 1776 to 1789 had taught the different States the necessity of giving a 112 THE PKESE^...sT CKISIS. more concentrated character to their federation. Let ns not forget that they ai-e bound by oath to re- main faithful to perpetual union, and that there is not a federal officer in America who has not sworn to maintain this Union. I shall not dwell on the fact that the Confedera- tion purchased with its money two of the States that now pretend to secede from it ; that it gave seventy-five millions to France for Louisiana, and twenty-five millions to Spain for Florida ; no, I choose to appeal from this to precedents, the author- ity of which is not contested, and which form, in some sort, the interpreting commentary of the Con- stitution.
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