Some day Yankees will invent machinery to do all this; but now, the unequal length of the stalks and the necessity for cutting each one at the upper joint to exclude the injurious juices of the top, are supposed to require this slow labor-consuming process.
Reid reflects on the labor-intensive process of sugar cane harvesting and anticipates future technological advancements.
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Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.
I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?