With New England habits of industry, and with that diversified labor which would be sure to spring from intelligence, the State of Virginia, which skirts us here on the south, would support all the population of the New England states, and fill them with abundance.
Mann envisions a prosperous Virginia that could sustain a population equal to that of New England through intelligent labor.
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