I have never heard of anything, and I cannot conceive of anything, more absurd and more affrontive of all sober judgment than the cry that we are getting indemnity by the acquisition of New Mexico and California.
Reid criticizes the notion that acquiring New Mexico and California would provide any form of indemnity.
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