Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann, February 6, 1850

FEB 6.

I really think, if we insist upon passing the Wilmot Proviso for the Territories, that the South—a part of them — will rebel. But would pass it, rebellion or not. I consider no evil so great as that of the extension of slavery.

SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 288

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