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8651. UNION (The Federal), Attempts to disrupt.—

Not less worthy of your indignation
have been the machinations of parricides
who have endeavored to bring into
danger the Union of these States, and to subvert,
for the purposes of inordinate ambition,
a government founded in the will of its citizens,
and directed to no object but their happiness.—
R. to A. North Carolina Legislature. Washington ed. viii, 125.
(1808)