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Now, it is infinitely far from the purpose of the north to offer any indignity to the south by excluding slavery from the territories.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann emphasizes that the North does not intend to insult the South by excluding slavery from the territories.

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