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The south, notwithstanding any personal hostility, will be as ready to take northern gold as though it had come from the English mint; and they will employ those first, who will do their manufacturing or their commercial labor cheapest and best.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann points out the South's willingness to accept Northern resources regardless of political tensions.

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