Life of Stephen a Douglas United States Senator From Illinois With His Most I
Life of Stephen a Douglas United States Senator From Illinois With His Most I
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I am content for the present with the territory we have. I do not wish to annex any portion of Mexico now. I did not wish to annex any part of Central America then, nor do I at this time. But I cannot close my eyes to the history of this country for the last half century. Fifty years ago the question was being debated in this Senate whether it was wise or not to acquire any territory on the west bank of the Mississippi, and it was then contended that we could never with safety extend beyond tha...t river. It was at that time seriously considered whether the Alleghany Mountains should not be the barrier beyond which we should never pass. At a sub- sequent date, after we had acquired Louisiana and Florida, more liberal views began to prevail, and it was thought that perhaps we might venture to establish one tier of States west of the Mississippi ; but in order to prevent the sad calamity of an undue expansion of our territory, the policy was adopted of establishing an Indian Ter- ritory, with titles in perpetuity, all along the western borders of those States, so that no more new States could possibly be created B T E P H E K A .
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I am content for the present with the territory we have. I do not wish to annex any portion of Mexico now. I did not wish to annex any part of Central America then, nor do I at this time. But I cannot close my eyes to the history of this country for the last half century. Fifty years ago the question was being debated in this Senate whether it was wise or not to acquire any territory on the west bank of the Mississippi, and it was then contended that we could never with safety extend beyond tha...t river. It was at that time seriously considered whether the Alleghany Mountains should not be the barrier beyond which we should never pass. At a sub- sequent date, after we had acquired Louisiana and Florida, more liberal views began to prevail, and it was thought that perhaps we might venture to establish one tier of States west of the Mississippi ; but in order to prevent the sad calamity of an undue expansion of our territory, the policy was adopted of establishing an Indian Ter- ritory, with titles in perpetuity, all along the western borders of those States, so that no more new States could possibly be created B T E P H E K A .
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