...stopped, by exciting fears which must check these favourable tendencies, and frustrate the efforts of the wisest and best men in those states, to accelerate...destined to dissolution, by reason of the multiplied abuse of bad administration, it should, if possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate...

..."the national compact," which is not to be dissolved, unless such a dissolution should be necessary "by reason of the multiplied abuses of bad administrations...possible, be the work of peaceable times and deliberate consent." It gravely proposed that Congress should confide to the states their own defense, a certain...

...commerce has burnt itself out. In this respect the author of the Report proved an excellent prophet. Finally, if the Union be destined to dissolution,...possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent. . . . Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and permanent. . . they...

...cannot be made exclusive victims of a capricious and impassioned policy." 8S But, finally, they agree : "If the Union be destined to dissolution, by reason of the multiplied abuses of a bad administration, it should, if possible, be the work of peaceful times. Events may prove that...

...severance of the Union, " especially in a time of war." " If the Union be destined to dissolution, ... it should, if possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent." But these philosophical considerations did not deter the author of the report from a vicious...

...severance of the Union, " especially in a time of war." " If the Union be destined to dissolution, ... it should, if possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent" Bnt these philosophical considerations did not deter the author of the report from a vicious...

...United States, 1750-1835, 265 ; Hildreth, History of the United States, III, NS, 546. t Pages 14, 21. "Finally, if the Union be destined to dissolution...possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent. Some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those States which shall intend to...

..."Finally, if the Union be destined to dissolution, by reason * Madison, Message to Congress, March 9, 1912. of the multiplied abuses of bad administrations; it...possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent. — Some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those States, which shall intend...

...cleary indicated their opinion to be that the right to withdraw existed in the States. They said : "If the Union be destined to dissolution by reason of the multiplied abuses of bad administration, it should, if possible, be the work of peaceable times and deliberate consent. Some...

...grievances. "If the Union be destined to dissolution," the convention announced to the world, "... it should, if possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent." The geographical center of the state rights agitation shifted once more with the renewal...