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It cannot be so, I trust, with the liberal farmers of this valley.
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Sumner expresses hope that the local farmers will not oppose the Emancipation measures.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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