We may guide, protect, elevate them, and even teach them some day to stand alone; but if we ever invite them into our Senate and House, to help to rule us, we are the most imbecile of all the offspring of time.
Reid expresses a strong opinion on the implications of admitting certain territories into the governance of the United States.
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Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.
The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.