Original sentence: The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention [...]
Edited sentence: The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention.This, I believe, has produced much of the confusion and perplexity, which have appeared in several proceedings and several publications on state-politics, and on the politics, too, of the United States