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General education by enabling them to keep account of their own affairs and to pass a correct judgment upon the teachings of false friends, and the threats of open enemies is the only lever by which this dead weight of ignorance can be removed from the natural resources of this section, and if [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] political quiet can be restored, capital which is pressingly invited, would soon set all the idle hands at profitable employment. All which is respectfully submitted. 

I am General 
Very Respectfully,
Your Ob't Serv't, 
Thos P. Jackson
Sub Asst Comr 11th Sub Dist of Va.  

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