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It was with a joy such as no words can ever express, that I saw the territories rescued from the clutch of slavery by the expiration of the Thirtieth Congress.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann expresses profound joy at the territories being freed from slavery as Congress ended its session.

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