Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John M. Read: In Favor of Free Kansas, Free White Labor, and of Fremont and Dayton, at the Eighth Ward Mass Meeting, Held in the Assembly Buildings, on Tuesday Evening, September 30, 1856
By the purchase of Louisiana we had acquired a claim to what was called Texas, and our western boundary in that quarter, between us and Spain, was unsettled and undefined. Spain owned the Floridas, which, by a resolution and acts passed in secret session in 1811 and 1812, but not published until 1818, Congress had determined should not pass into any other hands than our own.
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