To the Citizens of the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina
To the Citizens of the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina
Zebulon Baird Vance
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At a vast expense we acquire them, they are admitted intoour Union and clothed with sovereignty, protected and elevated into ah integral part of a great civilized nation, on an equal footing with the original States. After all this is done, the new States take offense at some law of the Congress and walk out of the Union ! Nobody has any right to prevent them "from resuming their sovereignty" at any time, though they never had any sover- eignty, as Florida and Louisiana. So of Cuba, Nicaragua, ...or any other country we might annex. In fact the whole concern, the old and the new States, would have no cement, no bond of Union, that might not be blown into atoms at any mo- ment ; and any general or central government would be a mere tenantat will, which one of the owners might put off without even so much warning as a road hand is en- litled to have before he can be compelled to work or pay the forfeiture! Who would want to Ut« in such a government, or pretence of a government, as that would be ?
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