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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ated more trouble, caused more strife, and created more hatred, dissension and division in our country, than all the other States combined. They have uniformly opposed the acquisition of territory, and consequently the organization and admission of new States into the Union. If their policy had prevailed, we should have had at this day the original thirteen States, and no more. All those States carved out of the Louisiana territory, the Northwestern territory, Spanish territory, and Mexican territory, would have been excluded from association and union with us. They have shown themselves the uncompromising enemies of progress; they have sternly resisted every attempt to extend our empire, under the fear that " the Western States, multiplied in number and augmented in population, will control the interests of the whole." Existing difficulties furnish abundant reasons and the best opportunity for severing our connection with them; and we ought not to permit the occasion to pass unimp