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If the south wishes to dissolve the Union, let them do it, and at the end of thirty years there will be no slave in all their borders.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If the south wishes to dissolve the Union, let them do it, and at the end of thirty years there will be no slave in all…”
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Mann suggests that if the South were to leave the Union, it would ultimately lead to the end of slavery there.
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