“I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted … to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ….”

— Henry Clay

Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810).

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