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Propositions for the repeal of obnoxious laws sustaining Slavery were stifled.
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Sumner notes the suppression of proposals aimed at repealing laws that supported slavery.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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