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England to buy her cotton from the free labor of India and thus strike a blow at the pockets of the slave-holders.
Commercial reasons had much to do with Northern proslavery feeling, for the merchants of the free States did not wish to have their markets disturbed.
General Dix, afterwards governor of New York, records that in 1850 he found merchants of high standing in the metropolis who declared their readiness to advocate the re-establishment of the foreign slave trade and the reintroduction of slavery at the North.
Chicago: the Public Publishing Company, 1905.
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