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I repeat, then, that the north cannot shut out the south from the new territories by a law for excluding slavery, more effectually than the south will shut out the north by the fact of introducing slavery.
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Mann argues that both the North and South will effectively exclude each other from new territories through their respective stances on slavery.
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