SnrFac.it and in his representative relations two fundamental and prominent points in our American polity were conspicuously illustrated. I mean the doctrine of expatriation. by whici the tie of native allegiance to the mother country is loosed and an alien is admitted into the fold of our American brotherhood. and that other principle by which a foreign state. formed out of territory no part of the domain of our common Union. or of any State of the Union. is admitted into the family. the confederate family of our American States. The principle of naturalization. ingrafted in our Constitution by our fathers. admitted Mr. Sc i c. to citizenship in the United States. and the principle bywhich new States maybe admittedinto the Union brought the Lone Star State of Texas into the American family in 1846. It may not be out of place for me to say that perhaps the most momentous event in American histry was the admission of Texas into the Union. The fruit of it has been the founding of that great Pacific empire which has done so wonderful a part in furnishing a currency for the world. and which has opened the gates of American commerce with Asiatic civilization. And at the same time perhaps it may be said that it was productive of the unhappy civil war which convulsed this Union to its center. I am old enough.
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