Note 31 — Chapter IX
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This idea is beautifully expressed in the following passage of a late letter from Mr. Webster, in reply to an invitation from the citizens of Macon, Georgia:—
“The States are united, not consolidated;
‘Not, chaos-like, together crashed and bruised, But, like the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see; And where, though all things differ, all agree.’”