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54 Thus far they have looked on perhaps witt too much indifference, at the aggressions committed time after time upon the principles of liberty, and have given little encouragement to the effbrts of agitators. But a persistence in sacrificing the interests of the whole to the maintenance of an institution not to be justified either in the eyes of God or man, a resolute determination to press tie country into a position before the world, at war both with its declared principles and with justice and right, may try their patience somewhat beyond bearing. And the reaction in public opinion, consequtent upon the outbreak of their indignation, may have effects upon the policy of the Union and the condition of the slave States, which would hardly be compensated, to the latter by the additional security they might fancy they had purchased to themselves, even by success in forcing the annexation of Texas.