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at our annual fairs, when the people come together to 

 inspect and compare, to buy and sell, the vegetable and 

 animal products of the country. If it is right to offer 

 and receive a prize for fatness of swine, and stoutness 

 of oxen, and fleece-bearing capacity of sheep, and even 

 fancy kinds of hens and pigeons, then I do not see 

 why prizes should not be offered and contended for in 

 respect to the comparative speed of rival horses. No 

 one has a right to condemn an honorable rivalry among 

 honorable men in honorable things. 



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