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finds as general favor among themselves as everywhere among their real friends. Many who are backward to aid the free-soup project are ready to help place upon the public lands the multitudes who although illy fitted to come up to the standard of well-trained, industrious hired servants, either North or South, would, upon their own soil, at least sooner dig than die; while others have rivaled the Swiss & Germans in industry & thrift in clearing, grubbing & tilling their little assigned patches of land. As a mere matter of economy, aside from its lasting beneficence to the race, a less sum would settle, & subsist them in Florida or upon other portions of the public domain than would be required to furnish the