On the record
I frankly avow my entire unwillingness to do anything that shall extend the slavery of the African race on this continent, or add other slave-holding States to the Union.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Editor's note · Context
Lodge openly states his unwillingness to support the expansion of slavery in the United States.
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