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Abolition Debate Dangers Warned By South Senator
In a Senate address dated March 1 1836 Mr Pulston from South Carolina cautions against letting abolitionism inflame sectional passions. He cites England Jamaica and Ireland to warn of dangers and urges swift decisive government action to bar incendiary petitions and protect the Union. He appeals to non slaveholding states to unite and confront the growing abolition agitation.
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South Carolina
Senate of the United States
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Senate
Massachusets
Society of Friends
Europe
America
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England
Juste Milieu Party
Journal Des Debats
Duc de Brogie
St. Domingo
French West Indies
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West Indies
Oxford
Wilberforce
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Lord Holland
House of Peers
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South
Constitutional Assembly
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Congress
New York
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United States