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There must be, some time, a conflict on this very question between slave and free representation.
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Quincy predicts an inevitable conflict between slave and free representation in the future.
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The pride of Britain itself must bend to the course of events.
This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
This rendered it more unavoidable that the remainder of the continent should ultimately be ours.
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