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To: DiogenesLamp
He admits the land cannot be used, but then goes on to say with a lot of work to create irrigation systems, it might eventually be used.

Allow me to help you with your reading comprehension.

…therefore the only species of labor that can readily supply its place under our Government would, I think, be the domestic servitude of African slavery; and therefore I believe it is essential, on account of the climate, productions, soil, and the peculiar character of cultivation, that we should during its first settlement have that slavery in at least a portion of California and New Mexico.

37 posted on 07/04/2026 11:47:42 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
Allow me to help you with your reading comprehension.

Physician heal thyself.

38 posted on 07/04/2026 10:42:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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