They promised themselves that they could draw over leading northern men to their support, by offering them the Tantalus cup of presidential honors; and then, by the force of party cohesion and discipline, insure the support of the vast descending scale of office expectants.
Mann discusses the manipulative tactics of southern leaders to gain support from northern politicians.
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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.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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