We all know that it has more than three times as many mountains, inaccessible and rocky hills, and sandy wastes, as are possessed by any State of the Union. But how much is there of useful land? How much that may be made to contribute to the support of man and of society? The agricultural products of the whole surface...never will be equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part.
- Senator Daniel Webster urgng the Senate to oppose the annexation of California in 1850
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