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The European peasant, who toils for his scanty sustenance in penury, wretchedness, and servitude, will eagerly fly to this asylum for free and industrious labor.
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Sumner highlights the plight of European peasants seeking better opportunities in America.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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