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Yes, fellow-citizens; for there is an attempt, and that attempt is to be followed up, to overwhelm the Free Soil party by obloquy and denunciation.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann warns of a concerted effort to discredit the Free Soil party through negative propaganda.

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