July 12. To-day the
city is dressed in mourning. No one as yet seems to know what will be the
policy of the new President, whether it will be for freedom or for slavery, or
whether he will not profess to adopt such a middle course as that slavery will
be sure to get the advantage in the end. I look upon the movement in New Mexico
that of inserting the prohibition of slavery in their new constitution as even
more valuable than I did before. They will be far less likely to recede from
this ground, having once adopted it.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 307-8
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