The United States are the scene of notable inconsistencies :
the freest country in the world hesitates to admit California to its Union because that State as desired to repudiate slavery ; andthe legislators of said freest country are indignant because Sir Henry Bulwer has asked for reciprocity in the coasting trade. Senator Cooper is astonished at the audacity of a foreign minister, that he should interfere with the internal affairs of a strange land,— precisely the indignation which a tradesman might feel if a stranger were to enter his shop and offer custom. Mr. Webster's was the most noted speech on the shivery question—a compromise between North and South : he would not forbid slavery in California, because he believes it to be impossible, through the physical geo- zatilig of the place ; he wishes " Nature " to undergo all the re- lay of disobliging " the South."
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