The Territories of the United States, with unimportant exceptions have remained undisturbed by the civil war; and they are exhibiting such evidence of prosperity as justifies an expectation that some of them will soon be in a condition to be organized as States and be constitutionally admitted into the Federal Union.
Lincoln remarks on the stability and prosperity of U.S. Territories during the civil war, hinting at their future statehood.
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