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Under this doctrine, they have converted a tract of Free Territory into Slave Territory more than five times the size of the State of New York.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner points out the significant expansion of slave territory due to the doctrine of Non-Intervention.

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