She's glorious in her principles,
New England, but she carries her principles in her pocket! I
admire your proposed solution, but that solution I fear you will
never see. It is the fatal test, that of the pocket." But the
idea had hold of him, and would not let him go. He walked up and
down, excited, still arguing against it.
"The South, frankly, has always been juggled out of its rights, all
along the line--through pocket politics--and I'm not sure how much
more it can endure of the same sort of juggling. Why, John Quincy
Adams himself, Northerner that he was, admitted that Missouri had
the right to come in as a slave state, just as much as had Arkansas
and Louisiana. Pocket-politics allowed Congress to trade all of
the Louisiana Purchase south of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes,
excepting Arkansas, in exchange for the Floridas--and how much
chance, how much lot and part had the Missourians in a country so
far away as Florida? The South led us to war with Mexico in order
to extend our territory, but what did the South get? The North
gets all the great commercial and industrial rights.
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