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Is there a single Whig constituency, in any free state in this country, that would return any man that would not vote for freedom?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann emphasizes the expectation of Whig constituents for their representatives to vote for freedom.

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