The people of a Territory have all the rights of the people of a State; and therefore there are no Territories belonging to the American Union, but all are by the silent negative operations of the Constitution of the United States, converted into independent sovereign members of the North American Confederacy.
He argues that the people of a Territory possess the same rights as those of a State, emphasizing their sovereignty.
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They were relived from the disparaging distinctions that came into existence with the system of slavery.
There was never in his career any ostentatious display of power, never any exercise of wanton or unnecessary authority.
He was so great that it was not a humiliation to acknowledge a change in opinion, or to admit an error in policy or purpose.
On the other hand, I claimed that all thought of the further use of silver should be postponed until the attempt to secure the co-operation of other countries had been tried faithfully.
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