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[T]here are gentlemen, not only from the Northern, but

from the Southern States, who think that this unhappy

question—for such it is—of negro slavery … should never

be brought into public notice … Sir, it is a thing which

cannot be hid … you might as well try to hide a volcano,

in full operation …

—John Randolph, 1826

“Shadow,” said he,

“Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?”

—“Eldorado,” Edgar Allan Poe, 1849