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Even in a pecuniary point of view, a dissolution of our political ties would cause less immediate and intense suffering at the north than at the south.
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Mann reflects on the economic implications of political separation between the North and South during the slavery debate.
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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.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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