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Just as well, I answer, and on precisely the same legal ground that the south can carry slavery into New Mexico.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Just as well, I answer, and on precisely the same legal ground that the south can carry slavery into New Mexico.”
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Mann asserts that the legal grounds for carrying slavery into new territories are as valid as those for other controversial practices.
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