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The right of secession — the power of coercion in the Federal Government.

We invoke earnestly the attention of our readers to a communication on these subjects which we transfer to our columns from the Baltimore Sun. Let them read carefully the irresistible authorities there collected upon the subject. Let them see how all parties, in the formation of the Constitution, including Alexander Hamilton, arrayed themselves against those despotic and monstrous doctrines and pretensions now put forth by the Republicans.

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