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Excerpt from Miscellaneous Essays and Letters Amidst the turmoil and wrangling that render the debates in Congress almost unintelligible, it would seem that the satisfactory adjustment of the perplexing questions embraced in the compromise bill very much depends on the disposal of that portion which relates to Texas and its boundaries. Here at length the hitherto disjointed ultraisms of the country have found a point on which they can concentrate their traitorous forces; and by similar steps, and on the same soil that they and their coadjutor (the late James K. Polk) compelled a foreign, precipitated a civil, war upon their country. And should retribution be permitted to visit us through this means, how fearfully instructive should be the warning! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.