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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. George E. Pugh, of Ohio, on the State of the Union: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December, 20, 1860 But the real cause of apprehension, as my colleague must be aware, lies deeper than that. No complaint of injustice or unfaithfulness, heretofore, in administering the Fed eral Government, is made by the people of the slaveholding States; they have been satis ed with it, or, at least, ninety-nine hundredths of them have been. Their apprehension is, from the conduct. Of the Republican party in the States of which it has had absolute control, for years past, that it will so administer the Government of the United States, hereafter, as to undermine their institutions, diminish their prosperity, and even destroy their tranquillity and happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."