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In the long series of acts of indirect aggression, the first was the strenuous agitation by citizens of the Northern States, in Congress and out of it, of the question of Negro emancipation in the Southern States.
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Pierce discusses the Northern States' role in the agitation for Negro emancipation in the South.
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