[Footnote 80: Elliott's "Debates," vol. i, p. 239; "Madison Papers," pp.
1119-1124.]
[Footnote 81: "Madison Papers," p. 1184.]
[Footnote 82: "Federalist," No. lxxxi.]
[Footnote 83: "Federalist," No. lxxxiv.]
[Footnote 84: Ibid., No. lxxxv.]
[Footnote 85: Elliott's "Debates," vol. iii, pp. 389-391.]
[Footnote 86: Elliott's "Debates," vol. iii, p. 503.]
[Footnote 87: Curtis's "Life of Webster," chap. xxxvii, vol. ii, pp.
518, 519.]
CHAPTER XI.
The Right of Secession.--The Law of Unlimited Partnerships.--The
"Perpetual Union" of the Articles of Confederation and the "More
Perfect Union" of the Constitution.--The Important Powers
conferred upon the Federal Government and the Fundamental
Principles of the Compact the same in both Systems.--The Right
to resume Grants, when failing to fulfill their Purposes,
expressly and distinctly asserted in the Adoption of the
Constitution.
The Right of Secession--that subject which, beyond all others,
ignorance, prejudice, and political rancor have combined to cloud with
misstatements and misapprehensions--is a question easily to be
determined in the light of what has already been established with regard
to the history and principles of the Constitution. It is not something
standing apart by itself--a factious creation, outside of and
antagonistic to the Constitution--as might be imagined by one deriving
his ideas from the political literature most current of late years.
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