Why require protection where you will have nothing to protect?
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All you appear to desire it is for New Mexico.

Nothing else is left.

Yet you will not accept New Mexico at once, because ten years of experience have proved to you that protection has been of no use thus far." These are somewhat extraordinary words in 1861 from a man who in 1850 had, as a Conscience Whig, declined to support Mr.Webster for making in advance the same statements, and for submitting arguments that were substantially identical.
During the debate, in which Mr.Adams arraigned the Disunionists of the South with considerable power, he was somewhat embarrassed by a Southern member who quoted resolutions which Mr.Adams had introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1844, and which had been passed by that body, respecting the annexation of Texas.