They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
Robert Toombs
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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
- Robert Toombs