1837/04/05
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Gerrit Smith
Political situation, Gag Rule, opposition to slavery. "The condition of the African race in this Union has ever been to me subject of deep concern... I have felt an anxious wish that slavery might be abolished... throughout the Union and throughout the world... [but] the people of the free states are spell-bound by the talisman of ambition to sustain the slavery of the south."
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