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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, on the Subject of Compromise: In the Senate of the United States, February 8, 1850
I maintain that, when the Territories are erected into States by their own action, that, in the formation of their constitutions under which they ask admission, the people of the Territories have the right to give their own form to their own institutions, and in their own way. 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.
