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Horace Mann: “Having, as I trust, refuted the argument of the slaveholder, that the prohibition of slavery in the territories is an…”

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Having, as I trust, refuted the argument of the slaveholder, that the prohibition of slavery in the territories is an act of injustice to his rights, I will consider his next assertion, that it is an insult to his feelings.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann addresses the claims of slaveholders regarding the prohibition of slavery in territories, asserting it is not an injustice.

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