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The old view that each new Territory is merely another outlet for surplus population, soon to be taken in as another State in the Union, must be abandoned.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid argues against the outdated notion of viewing new territories solely as extensions of the United States.
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We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
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With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
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