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There is, at the present time, a set of politicians amongst us, who are so alarmed at agitation that each one of them is a kind of Peter the Hermit, getting up a crusade to prevent it.
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Mann critiques politicians who fear public agitation against slavery, comparing them to historical figures leading misguided crusades.
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