Now I wish to ask the manufacturers and commercial men of the north, whether, if they had seen,--as it was seen by every unbiased man at the seat of government,--that upholding the compromise would put down protection, they would have consented to the compromise?
Mann questions the willingness of northern manufacturers to compromise if they had understood the consequences.
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