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Even should this hope fail, every body sees what an unnatural attitude of power and strength the cotton-producing states now occupy.
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Mann observes the unnatural power dynamics of cotton-producing states in relation to their size and influence.
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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.
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