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Now, on investigation, I believe it will most conclusively appear that there is not an inch of Texan territory north of the stipulated line.
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Mann asserts that there is no Texan territory north of the stipulated line, challenging claims of annexation.
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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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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