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Slavery, Unions, and Northern Emissaries Roil South
A lengthy excerpt presents a fiery political debate with Southern leaders attacking Northern Republicans and abolitionist content. The text cites emissaries circulating incendiary material, detentions, and warnings of federal intervention. It includes Governor Wise's correspondence about guarding borders and assertions of slavery as a benevolent system.
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