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eparately and individually independent, as a species of political heresy, which can never benefit us, and may bring on us the most serious distresses. Elliott's Debates, vol. IV., p. 801. These are the solemn and prophetic words of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; the patriot, the soldier, the statesman the trusted friend of Washington, repeatedly called by him to the highest offices of the Government; the one name that stands highest and brightest, on the list of the great men of South Carolind be perpetual. It is true that in a few years, from the inherent weakness of the central power, and from the want of means to enforce its authority on the individual citizen, it fell to pieces. It sickened and died from the poison of what General Pinckney aptly called the heresy of State Sovereignty, and in its place a Constitution was ordained and established in order to form a more perfect Union; a Union more binding on its members than this contract of alliance, which yet was to be inviola