If the south expects to rid itself of agitation and abolitionism by rupturing its bonds with the north and substituting an alliance with Great Britain for our present constitution, they may envy the wisdom of the geese who invited the fox to stand sentinel over them while they slept.
Mann critiques the idea of the South aligning with Britain as a solution to its problems, using a metaphor about geese and a fox.
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