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As “patriotic” men, they prefer to bear any calamity that may come upon themselves, rather than to devolve accumulated calamities, growing out of their own dereliction from duty, upon their posterity.
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Mann highlights the responsibility of his constituents to avoid passing on the burdens of slavery to future generations.
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