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The most formidable part of this combination against you is that which originates in the slave interest.
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Mann highlights the significant threat posed by the interests of slaveholders to the freedom of others.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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