" if the creator had separated TExas from the union by mountain barriers, the Alps or the Andes , there...

" if the creator had separated TExas from the union by mountain barriers, the Alps or the Andes , there might be plausible objections; but he has planned down the whole [Mississippi] Valley including Texas, and united every atom of the soil and every drop of water of the mighty whole. he has linked their rivers with the great Mississippi, and marked and united the whole for the domination of one goverment/ residence of one people." This quotation from the 1840's can be veiwed as an expression of