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My opinion is, that the cause of all our present calamity, and of the enduring dishonor of the late measures, is this very desire to conciliate southern favor, instead of giving a manful defence to northern rights.
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Mann attributes the nation's troubles to a desire to appease the South instead of standing firm for Northern rights, advocating for moral courage.
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