Would any Senator on this floor believe that an act of our Congress which proposed colonization upon its own domain meant colonization front the people or citizens of the United States? Surely no one would contend that. Colonization meant the colonization of foreigners. It meant to encourage immigration into Mexico in order that lands might be taken up and be rendered subject to the skill of the agriculturist. Section 4 of this act says: Those territories comprised within twenty leagues of the boundaries of any foreign nations or within ten leagues of the seacoast can not be colonized without the previous approval of the supreme general executive power. In other words. that applied to the territory adjacent to foreign nations and on the seacoast where there was danger of invasion.
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