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“ Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. ”

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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

~ Robert Toombs

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

~ Robert Toombs