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Quotation from Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution) by Robert Y. Hayne
“In the course of my former remarks, Mr. President, I took occasion to deprecate, as one of the greatest evils, the consolidation of this government.”
Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on consolidation and parties (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text)
Hayne opens his reply to Webster's defense of consolidation, the word on which the constitutional dispute turned.
Citation: "In the course of my former remarks, Mr. President, I took occasion to deprecate, as one of the greatest evils, the consolidation of this government." — Robert Y. Hayne, Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on consolidation and parties (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text). (id hayne-speech-on-foots-resolution-q4)
Portrait: Robert Y Hayne, Unknown author, Public domain.
