Instead of making a government for the old thirteen States they seem to have devoted themselves exclusively to the benefit of Texas. giving the Constitution automatic power of expansion and contraction. When Texas wants money. the proceeds of the public lands. the proceeds of taxes. as I have shown that the Patent Office fees are taxes. the Constitution then stretches itself out enough to give the power. When our friends. by a good fortune which I do not envy and do not grudge. have outstripped in their growth the other States. when thousands of immigrants from beyond the seas and also from the older States of the South are flocking into her borders. making her still richer and still greater. until she has got into a condition where she does not need the aid that this bill gives. then there is no power to act! Mr. President.
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