** I concluded by assuring them that the hare mention of the subject in any treaty to which the United States was a party, was an absolute impossibility : that no President of the United States would dare to present any such treaty to the, Senate ; and that, if it were in their power to offer me the whole territory described in our project, in- creased ten-fold in value, and in addition to that, covered afoot thick all over luith 2>ure gold, iqmn the single con- DITIOX THAT SLAVERY SHOULD BE EXCLUDED thcrcfrom, I could not entertain the offer for a moment, nor think even of communicating it to Washington."
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