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Ultimately, the president refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, telling the prisoner’s intercessors that the “slave-trade will never be put down till our laws are executed, and the penalty of death has once been enforced upon the offenders.” The statute had been thought unenforceable.
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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