JAN. 28, 1850.
This morning I was
introduced to a gentleman from North Carolina, who wanted to have a talk with
me about slavery. He is embedded in all the doctrines in its favor. He has been
offering all commercial, economical, and pecuniary arguments to me in reference
to slavery in the Territories. As to the moral and religious aspect of the
question, he is as firm for slavery as William Lloyd Garrison is against it. He
says he is willing to take up with any portion of the new territory which the
South can accept, as a decent pretext for surrendering the rest. I told him I
would give the South any money as an equivalent, any amount of the public lands
which they may turn into money; but one inch of territory for slavery never!
let what would come.
Dark clouds overhang
the future: and that is not all; they are full of lightning.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p.
287-8
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