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Virginia slave property and union bonds in secession debate
A Virginia senator argues that slave property is uniquely insured by the Constitution, while abolitionists seek union dissolution. He warns against secession as risking foreign control of the Mississippi and Gulf ports, and defends federal supremacy over state law amid wartime tensions.
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