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Horace Mann: “Whatever the design of those papers may have been, their whole argument and office are to wheel the Whig party into…”

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Whatever the design of those papers may have been, their whole argument and office are to wheel the Whig party into line, to fight the battles of slavery.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann critiques political maneuvers that serve to uphold slavery rather than freedom.

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