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, I say, if these resolutions shadowed forth that policy, they would thus far meet my approbation. I am willing to act with our sister States which have suffered like wrongs, and if resistance come, still to stand by them and with them. But, sir, because Massachusetts has by her representatives in her own State Legislature perpetrated wrong on the people of my State --because Connecticut has been faithless to her constitutional obligations, do you ask me to do violence to the land of Washington, to sever my connection with my interest in Mount Vernon and Monticello, because other States have proved recreant to their obligations; because they are faithless to my constituents — patriotic men as I know they are, ask me to withdraw Georgia from good old Virginia, the land per excellence of freedom?--Do they ask me to give up Louisiana, to break bonds of brotherhood with her? Why, sir, it is the battle ground of New Orleans, it is the land where the American armies gained their most