But admit slavery there, and the power of the government will be invoked to exterminate these Indians, as it was before to exterminate the Cherokees and Seminoles,--not to drive them beyond the Mississippi, but beyond the Styx.
Mann warns about the potential consequences of allowing slavery in new territories, particularly regarding the treatment of Native Americans.
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