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the necessary quantity to keep up their plantations & employ their requisite number of laborers. Besides the great number of laborers who are out of employment when we reflect that they have families who are unable to support themselves the fact is inevitable, that suffering must, if it is not already existing, in the community. My opinion is [[struck out]]that[[/struck out]] that it would be advisable for the Government, at the earliest possible period to make an appropriation [[struck out]]in [[/struck out]] by extending pecuniary aid to the owners of the Soil, which will enable them to cultivate their farms and give employment to the laborers of the County, which I am induced to believe would be readily done & all will go on quietly & well. Nothing could result before such action on the part of the Government but the material benefit to both. I am of opinion that an amount,