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Cases Arising out of the institution of slavery

--Three cases of political importance will soon be before the United States Supreme Court. These are an appeal from the Territorial Court of Kansas on a decision as to the right of the people Territory to exclude slavery therefrom; the controversy between Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, and Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, and the Lemmon case, from New York.

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