SEPT. 13, 1850.
I wrote you word yesterday what an infernal day's work we did. The Fugitive-slave Bill was driven through under the gag. The floor was assigned to Mr. Thompson, a Pennsylvania Democrat, who made a speech of nearly an hour long, and then called for the previous question, which was sustained; and so all possibility of debate or of amendment was precluded.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 329
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