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And now, practically, what right has the north, or what right is claimed by the north, which the south has not to an equal extent?
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Mann questions the claimed rights of the north in relation to the south, advocating for equal rights.
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Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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