[Mann, Horace]:

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SPEECH OF HORACE MANN, OF MASSACHUSETTS, ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION. DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ... Boston edition of a speech by Horace Mann before the United States House of Representatives in which Mann declares his opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories. Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an education reformer, politician, and abolitionist from Massachusetts. In 1848, following the death of John Quincy Adams, Mann was elected to the U.S. House to serve out the remainder of Adams's term. For more than a decade, Mann had fought for education reform as secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and he hoped his seat in Congress would give him the opportunity to bring about reform at the national level. Instead, however, Mann found himself preoccupied with what was perhaps the most pressing political issue of the day: slavery and its extension in the territories. This is the subject of the present speech, given on the floor of the House of Representatives on February 15, 1850. In it Mann states his opposition to slavery and its extension on moral and legal grounds. Embracing "[t]he epithet 'Free-Soiler,'" Mann insists that he "will engage in any honorable measure most likely to secure freedom to the new Territories" and "resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery." Mann goes on to adopt the rallying cry, "No more slave Territ

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