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I felt that this insult to the north should be resented by the renewed exclusion, by act of Congress, of slavery north of the line of latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “I felt that this insult to the north should be resented by the renewed exclusion, by act of Congress, of slavery north…”
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Sherman expresses his belief that Congress should act to exclude slavery from northern territories in response to perceived insults to the North.
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