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for some time past, absorbed their attention, and consumed their time even at the risk of making a large proportion of them paupers during the coming winter. - Should the crop fail, by reason of this continued neglect, what class would suffer more seriously than the laboring classes? If the speakers who profess to be enlightening the race, as to their duties &c. would confine their remarks to practical questions we might expect different & more favorable things but this is not the case, and what is still more, every man now is capable of expressing an idea and who is ambitious of political authority not only embraces every opportunity to speak, but, in those speeches, does nothing but discuss impracticable questions, and avows bitter feeling between the races, all of
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