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It would seem that under these platforms both parties were committed to acquiescence in existing laws upon the subject of slavery, and to a resistance of all measures to change or modify them.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “It would seem that under these platforms both parties were committed to acquiescence in existing laws upon the subject…”
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Sherman concludes that both parties were committed to maintaining the status quo on slavery.
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