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Their leaders had taught them that the one necessarily involved the other, and that a man who was in favor of the Wilmot Proviso was as bitter an enemy to the South as one who incited a servile insurrection.
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Blaine explains how Southern leaders conflated various political positions with threats to their way of life.
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