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If it would be a damning sin for us to admit another Slave State into the Union, why is it not a damning sin to permit a Slave State to remain in the Union?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison argues that allowing existing slave states to remain is as morally reprehensible as admitting new ones.
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