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and see him test the strength of the fibre. When we shall 

 get the cotton wool, and then the bark from the stalk for our 

 bagging and rope, and the oil from the seed, and the cotton 

 seed hulls converted to some practical purposes, and the cot- 

 ton stalk roots manufactured into patent medicine as an elixir 

 to perpetuate the existence of the negro who cultivates the 

 plant, we can then imagine that it has its true, intrinsic and 

 inestimable value. It will then be worth a war on the part 

 of the South to sustain and defend it, and claim a place for it 

 and its cultivators in any reputable portion of this earth." 



