But a new question had arisen,--the great question of freedom or slavery in our recently acquired territories,--and this question I deemed, for the time being, to be, though not exclusive of others, yet paramount to them.
Mann identifies the pressing issue of freedom versus slavery in newly acquired territories as a critical concern of his time.
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