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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Lewis F. Linn, of Missouri: On His Amendment to the Land Distribution Bill, Proposing to Appropriate the Revenue From the Public Lands to the National Defences; In Senate, August 11, 1841 As this Territory of Oregon had been the subject of protracted negotiation between the United States and Great Britain, and would, probably, like the Maine controversy, furnish material for much more, a brief notice of the grounds on which we we place our claim, seems to be required from the nature of the proposition under discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.