The things we do!

Doctor Jamieson took snuff,
and looked quietly from one to the other. "You can count me in,
gentlemen," said he.
Silence fell as he went on. "If they mean fight, let them have
fight. If we let in one army of abolitionists out here, to run off
our property, another will follow. As soon as the railroad gets as
far west as the Missouri River, they'll come out in swarms; and
they will take that new country away from us. That's what they
want.
"The South has been swindled all along the line," he exclaimed,
rising and smiting a fist into a palm. "We got Texas, yes, but it
had to be by war. We've been juggled out of California, which
ought to have been a southern state. We don't want these deserts
of Utah and New Mexico, for they won't raise cotton. When we try
to get into Cuba, the North and all the rest of the world protests.
We are cut off from growth to the south by Mexico. On the west we
have these Indians located. The whole upper West is air-tight
abolitionist by national law.


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