...oresaw this alternative in 1798. He looked upon the doctrine of secession as a heresy; but, none the less, it was a heresy indisputably then preached, and to which many, not in Virginia only but in New England also, pinned their political faith. Even the Devil is proverbially entitled to his due. So far, however, as the abstract question is of consequence, as the utterances of Professor Smith and Mr....