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It is well known that the war with Mexico was provoked, and violently precipitated upon the country, in order to extend the domain and the power of slavery.
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Mann critiques the motivations behind the U.S. war with Mexico, linking it to the expansion of slavery.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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