The House of Representatives was controlled by members of the Free Soil Party, which opposed slavery.

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In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.

在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言

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The Free Soil leaders proposed a convention of all who supported their ideas.

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