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The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgThe whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.
He warns that the North risks becoming irrelevant, overshadowed by the South's influence.
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