How manifestly, under the incongruous hodge-podge of additions to the Union thus proposed, we should be organizing with Satanic skill the exact conditions which have invariably led to such downfalls elsewhere!
Reid critiques the proposed additions to the Union, suggesting they could lead to national failure.
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