This offered a premium upon the acquisition of territory, and was an encouragement to schemes of aggression against friendly powers south of the United States, which would always have had the sympathy and support of one-half the Union, and could hardly have been resisted by any moral power of the General Government.
Blaine warns that a certain amendment would incentivize territorial expansion and aggression against neighboring countries.
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