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I regard these ever-repeated appeals made to Massachusetts men and to New England men to stand by the Union, as not merely obtrusive, but as affrontive and insulting.
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Mann finds repeated calls for loyalty to the Union from Massachusetts to be insulting and unwelcome.
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