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- Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
- This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.
- The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
- Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
- Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.
- Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.