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.