Mr. President. the story of the United States during the 19th century was one of movement and growth. We were an everexpanding people. drawing immigrants from the restless. the discontent. the needy. and the visionaries of other nations. We were also pushing our frontiers ever westward to the Pacific Ocean. Today. in my continuing series of addresses on the history of the U.S. Senate. I am going to speak about the remarkable decade of the 1840s. when the Nation added three new States. Florida. Iowa. and Wisconsin. and vast new territories in the Northwest. and Southwest. Such growth was not without its costs.
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