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Confidence in the stability of our Union has not only pervaded this country, but other countries.
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Mann asserts that confidence in the Union's stability extends beyond the United States.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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