To that extent I said it and no further. I1r. BLAIR. I did not understand the Senator to saythat the conTract system. which the bill prohibits. had been practiced in the State of Texas. o r. MAXEY. I think the Senator will find on looking at his reoarks when published that that is about the ide his language conveyed. M t. BLAIR. I understaod the Senator from Texas to say that the population of that great State had been increased. that its prosperity had been greatly promoted by the inducements in the way of land chiefly. which bad been held out to immigrants from abroad.
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