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one may be bolder and the other more timid, but the sense of duty must be equally weak on both.
With these views the committee are solemnly of impression if the system be persevered in, after due forbearance on the part of the state, that it will be her sacred duty to interpose her veto; a duty to herself, to the Union, to present, and to future generations, and to the cause of liberty over the world, to arrest the progress of a power, which, if not arrested, must in its consequences, corrupt the public morals, and destroy the liberty of the country.
To avert these calamities, to restore the Constitution to its original purity, and to allay the differences which have been unhappily produced between various states, and between the states and general government, we solemnly appeal to the justice and good feeling of those states heretofore opposed to us; and earnestly invoke the council and co-operation of those states, similarly situated with our own. Not doubting their good will and support; and sustained by a deep sense of the righteousness of its cause—the committee trusts that under Divine Providence the exertions of the state will be crowned with success.
