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But to what one of all these powers is the power to establish slavery in the District of Columbia a necessary incident?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “But to what one of all these powers is the power to establish slavery in the District of Columbia a necessary incident?”
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Mann questions the necessity of slavery in the context of governmental powers.
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