On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Every body, however dull, could see that this was a phase of the slavery question which was not to be slighted or ignored.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass asserts that the escalating issue of slavery's expansion became impossible for anyone to disregard.
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