A Canker on the Constitution: A moderate mayor of 1861 explains
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Baltimore Mayor George W. Brown found himself under the national spotlight after pro-secession mobs attacked Union troops as they marched through his city. A political moderate, Brown later shared his understanding of the Constitution's great weakness—slavery.
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