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Gold is a great pacificator between nations; and, in this money-loving age, mutual interests will, in the end, subdue mutual hostilities.
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Mann argues that economic interests will ultimately help resolve conflicts between nations.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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