But despotism is ever restless and grasping; but twenty-five years rolled by--a very short period in the life of a nation--ere Texas was admitted to the Union, that slavery propagandists could have a wider field for their operations.
He critiques the relentless expansion of slavery, exemplified by the admission of Texas into the Union.
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