human
American! are we not as much so as you? Were not Texas and Florida both incorporated into the Union in 1845?
gpt
Undoubtedly, replied the _Times_;
human
Yes! returned the _Tribune_;
gpt
Well! and why need we blush for that? Was not Louisiana bought from Napoleon in 1803 at the price of sixteen million dollars?
human
Scandalous! roared the Texan deputies.
gpt
A wretched little strip of country like Florida to dare to compare itself to Texas, who, in place of selling herself, asserted her own independence, drove out the Mexicans in March 2, 1836, and declared herself a federal republic after the victory gained by Samuel Houston, on the banks of the San Jacinto, over the troops of Santa Anna!—a country, in fine, which voluntarily annexed itself to the United States of America!
human
Yes; because it was afraid of the Mexicans!
gpt
Afraid!