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the opening of a new era in the history of the Southern States.

How are the Freedmen working and how are the employers conducting themselves toward their old slaves?

I cant for the "life of me" see why reasoning men will not perceive that the health incident upon Commerce & Manufacturing, is much more tangible & extensive than that drawn from merely the products of the soil.

Virginia has such vast water power that it should be one of our largest manufacturing states -

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