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BELIEF OF INDEBTED AGRICULTURISTS. 



no doubt be checked ; and so much the better. Bona fide debts shoul 

 be more easily recovered, and more reasonable interest would thus be 

 profitable. Finally, a legitimate mode, more practicable than any 

 yet suggested, will be provided for gradually clearing off the mass of 

 existing debt which now weighs upon the people and stops all im- 

 provement, while the great institution of a peasant-proprietary, which 

 is at once essentially Indian and considered in Europe the best form 

 of tenure for a free people, will not be destroyed. 



