...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...the present crisis, silence in me would be a crime, l will therefore speak the language of freedom and sincerity without disguise. "l am aware, however,"...

...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the Confederation and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes," he wrote then. "Without an entire community to the spirit of the Union, we cannot exist as an independent...

...Cement of the Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may lay one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested purposes."6 Whether or not they were encouraged by foreign powers, wars and strategic rivalries among...

...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall...