If they would only do this, and not attempt to carry every thing by slave-begotten votes, and by adding new states to beget more slave votes, they would soon surpass us; for nature has done vastly more for them, in soil and climate and in all the means of earthly prosperity, than for us.
Mann believes that if the South focused on genuine development rather than political manipulation, they could surpass the North.
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