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will be established which will result in the permanent welfare of both races.

Considering, further, that Virginia has abolished slavery by constitutional provision and adopted the constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery in the United states, and that she has also by a provision of her constitution repudiated forever the rebel debt, she cannot be said to be a lagger behind in the reforms called for by the radical changes and altered spirit of the day. Without saying whether she is in advance or not of her southern sisters in this regard, she certainly occupies no equivocal or unrespectable position before the nation. She is on her March - travelling full fast enough. Looking at the start she has made, may we not say for her

Magnus of integro sarclorum mascitur erdo.

I trust these explanatory statements will remove the misapprehensions existing in relation to the late legislature of my state, and put

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