The present six months’ contest, in the Senate and House, between the north and the south, is conducted solely on the conviction that slavery may exist in the territories; and that it will or will not exist there, according as the law allows or forbids it.
Mann emphasizes that the ongoing political conflict centers around the potential existence of slavery in new territories.
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