It is well worthy the consideration of the old states, whether it is not better to dispense with all territorial organizations--always expensive and turbulent--and, at once, to carve the whole into states of convenient size, for admission.
Sherman argues for the restructuring of territorial organizations into states for better governance.
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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.
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