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I will resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I will resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery.”
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Mann asserts his commitment to resist any proposals that would allow slavery to take hold in new territories.
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