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John Quincy Adams' complex evolution toward abolitionism and his moral stand against slavery's corruption of American principles
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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice For what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin It perverts human reason and reduces men endowed with logical
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Immigration, a dominant issue for TR’s America, was an enduring source of political discontent. In 1798, John Adams, amid war fever about France, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts to protect, in his view, the national interest against internal dissent and outside agitation. Passed by a Federalist-controlled Congress, the legislation, among other
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