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pelled sometimes to witness cruelties which fill them 

 with indignation, heightened by the necessity of 

 being silent, and keeping on good terms with persons 

 of whose conduct they disapprove. To the passing 

 stranger, they can enlarge on this source of annoy 

 ance, and send him away grieving that so late as the 

 year 1821, Missouri should have been added to the 

 Union as a Slave State, against the wishes of a re 

 spectable minority of its own inhabitants, and against 

 the feeling of a majority of the more educated popu 

 lation of the North. 



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