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Quotes from Diary entry — John Quincy Adams

1767–1848 United States

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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

Diary entry (1820)

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