Their influence bought over the slave power, by surrendering all our new territories to the invasion of slavery, and by giving fifty thousand square miles of free New Mexican territory to be turned into Texan slave territory, thus adding to the already enormous size of that slave-begotten state.
Mann accuses the administration of facilitating the expansion of slavery by surrendering new territories to it.
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