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It next plunged the country into unjust war with Mexico, to gain new lands for Slavery.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It next plunged the country into unjust war with Mexico, to gain new lands for Slavery.”
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Sumner criticizes the unjust war with Mexico as a means to acquire land for the purpose of expanding slavery.
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