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It had been procured for the purpose of fastening slavery upon all the Territories, and it had, of course, a special meaning when applied to the desperate struggle then in progress to make Kansas a slave State.
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Julian discusses the implications of a legal decision aimed at expanding slavery into new territories.
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The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
It was a confession of Congressional incompetence to deal with a problem which Congress alone had the right to solve.
They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
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