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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
d at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form a more perfect union by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the centre. Acting upon this principle, the Legislature of Massachusetts, the home of Mr. Adams, in 1844, resolved that the project of the annexation of Texas, unless arrested on the threshold, may drive these States into a dissolution of the Union. On the same subject on February 22, 1845, it resolved, * * * and as the powers of legislation granted in the Constitution of the United States to Congress do not embrace the case of the admission of a foreign State or foreign territory by legislation into the Union, such act of admission would have no binding force whatever on the people of Massachusetts. Here we have the unequivocal assertion of the right to secede. In 1814, on the call of Massachusetts, several of the New England States met in convention in Hartford