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In my opinion, the people of the United States will not consent to bring into the Union a new, vastly extensive, and slave-holding country, large enough for half a dozen or a dozen States.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Lodge warns against admitting new slave-holding states into the Union, emphasizing the potential consequences.
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