Clay proposed that the western border of Texas be changed to give New Mexico most of the land disputed by them.

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So, his letters come out of this western land, New Mexico, and a land of criminality, the reform school.

他的信从新墨西哥这片西部的土地而来，还是寄宿学校这种犯罪滋生地。

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