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Excerpt from Argument of John C. Brown, Vice President Texas and Pacific Railway Company, Before House Committee on Pacific Railroads, January 25, 1878: In Behalf of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company; Forty-Fifth Congress
As pertinent expressions of the feeling in Congress, at that day, I submit extracts from remarks of various prominent gentlemen upon the general subject-matter of the Gadsden Treaty: Mr. Peckham of New York (june 27, 1854) claimed that the chief value of the territory ceded consisted in the fact of its. Affording a track for a southern route to the Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
