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"I, sir, take a different view of the whole matter. I look upon Ohio and South Carolina to be parts of one whole--parts of the same country--and that country is my country.... I come here not to consider that I will do this for one distinct part of it, and that for another, but ... to legislate for the whole." And finally Webster turned to a higher idea: the idea--in and of itself--of Union, permanent and enduring."