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One of them is so unspeakably mean and contemptible, that all northern men must feel the insult more keenly than the wrong.
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Mann argues that a particular provision in the bill is especially insulting to northern citizens.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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