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Thus ended the business of the Convention, when Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, one of the leading members of that body, asked and obtained leave to place on record and have printed in the proceedings of the Convention a resolution in which the action of the politicians in the seven Cotton-growing States, who had declared their withdrawal from the Union, was deplored; and that the Convention, while “abstaining from any judgment on their conduct,” and. expressing a hope that they might soon see cause to “resume their honored places in this confederacy of States,” did so with the conviction that the Union was formed by the assent of the people of the respective States, and that the “republican institutions guarantied to each cannot and ought not to be maintained by force;”
therefore the Convention deprecated “any effort of the Federal Government to coerce, in any form, the said States to reunion or submission, as tending to irreparable breach, and leading ”
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