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[36] only so long as it is beneficial and satisfactory to all parties concerned. We do not believe that any man, any neighborhood, town, county, or even State, may break up the Union in any transient gust of passion; we fully comprehend that secession is an extreme, an ultimate resort—not a constitutional, but a revolutionary remedy. But we insist that this Union shall not be held together by force whenever it shall have ceased to cohere by the mutual attraction of its parts; and whenever the slave States or the cotton States only shall unitedly and cooly say to the rest, ‘We want to get out of the Union,’ we shall urge that their request be acceded to. The New York Herald of Friday, November 23, 1860, said:
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