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Now I ask southern gentlemen how it is consistent with magnanimity and honor, with a fraternal feeling towards the north, for them to force the odium of this inconsistency upon us?
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Mann questions the honor of Southern gentlemen in imposing the burden of slavery's inconsistency on the North.
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