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In the year 1818 the people of Missouri asked the Congress (国会) of the United States that Missouri be admitted as a state to the Union.
This 1 a discussion in Congress .The Northern states did not want 2 extended to another state .The Southern states 3 the slaveholders who were already in Missouri .After long discussion a 4 was finally made .Congress agreed to admit Missouri as a slave state, 5 by the admission of Maine as a 6 state .As part of the 7 , no more slave states were to be admitted north of the southern border of Kansas, Calorade and Utah.
Before a vote could be taken in the House, Representative Felix Walker, from Buncombe County, North Carolina, rose and asked for 8 to speak .Representative Walker gave a 9 speech .It had 10 to do with the question, and it seemed to have nothing to do with anything else.
At first the other representatives were 11 But as the speech 12 , the tired audience kept crying for him to 13 .Walker paid no attention .He went on 14 until he had finished his speech and then, 15 with himself, sat down.
Later Walker was asked why he had made a speech that had nothing to do with the discussion .Walker smiled .The 16 at home, he said, expected him to make a speech of some sort .Since it was expected, he had carefully 17 a speech .He was not speaking so much for 18 he was only talking for the people back home in Buncombe.
The word “buncombe ” was 19 by the press .Frequently it was misspelled “bunkum”, and later shortened to “bunk” .It meant any kind of 20 talk, or any untrue statement.
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