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This surrendering to the threat of disunion, is like the foolish mother who gave her boy a sugar-plum to stop swearing.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “This surrendering to the threat of disunion, is like the foolish mother who gave her boy a sugar-plum to stop swearing.”
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Mann uses a metaphor to criticize the appeasement of threats to the Union.
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