If the union of these states now is, or has ever been verging towards a point of danger, it is solely and only because ambitious men and mercenary men at the north have given it that direction by recognizing southern threats and bravadoes as realities, and thus encouraging them.
Mann argues that the danger to the Union arises from ambitious and mercenary individuals recognizing southern threats.
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