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extension of preemption rights and the purchase of Indian lands. In spite of his interest in western developments he believed that internal improvements at  federal expense ought to be confined to removing obstructions in rivers and harbors. He stood at first for the Oregon boundary line at 54 [degrees] 40' but later proposed the compromise which fixed it at 49 [degrees]. He favored the annexation of Texas but believed she had no right to the territory south and west of the Nueces.
It was Mr. Benton's attempt to refute Senator Foote's argument in favor of limiting the sale of public lands that gave rise to the famous Webster Hayne debate. Concerning this, Mr. Benton says he regards it as "noble sentiment, oratorically expressed, but so elaborately expressed, and too artistically composed for real grief in the presence of a great calamity, of which calamity I

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140 extension of preemption rights and the purchase of Indian lands. In spite of his interest in western developments he believed that internal improvements at federal expense ought to be confined to removing obstructions in rivers and harbors. He stood at first for the Oregon boundary line at 54 [degrees] 40' but later proposed the compromise which fixed it at 49 [degrees]. He favored the annexation of Texas but believed she had no right to the territory south and west of the Nueces. It was Mr. Benton's attempt to refute Senator Foote's argument in favor of limiting the sale of public lands that gave rise to the famous Webster Hayne debate. Concerning this, Mr. Benton says he regards it as "noble sentiment, oratorically expressed, but so elaborately expressed, and too artistically composed for real grief in the presence of a great calamity, of which calamity I