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Otherwise it would be the most nonsensical and nugatory discussion ever engaged in out of a lunatic asylum.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Otherwise it would be the most nonsensical and nugatory discussion ever engaged in out of a lunatic asylum.”
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Mann argues that the debate over slavery in the territories would be absurd if slavery's limitations were clearly defined.
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