Trustworthy estimates fixed the number of runaways in the free States at fifteen thousand, and a southern United States senator bitterly complained that only four or five had been recaptured since the law's enactment.
Alexander provides estimates on the number of runaways in the free states and the challenges of recapturing them.
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I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity.
The evident purpose of the United States Bank was to create, if possible, the fear of a panic.
This is the spirit in which I have determined for myself to come up to this great question, and to pass through it.
Perhaps, on the whole, nothing in Van Buren's official life showed greater political courage or discernment.
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