Note 69 — Chapter VIII · THE RISE OF JOHN YOUNG 1845-1846
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"On the great question that loomed threateningly on the horizon, Wright and Marcy took opposite sides. Wright moved calmly along with the advancing liberal sentiment of the period, and died a firm advocate of the policy of the Wilmot Proviso. On this test measure Marcy took no step forward."—H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 40.