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from the same amount of juice than at the North ; 

 and also that the seed will be more sure of ripen- 

 ing, and better in some respects after it is 

 ripened, may also be true. But this should not 

 prevent the North from engaging in its culture, 

 by any means ; for, even though it should cost as 

 much to produce sugar on our own farms as we 

 could buy it for in the market, yet I believe very 

 many would choose to make their own ; for, aside 

 from the fact that many would prefer sugar pro- 

 duced on free soil by free labor, they would 

 rather make it themselves, and thus turn their 

 labor into money, than pay out the ready cash 

 for an article grown in a foreign country, or even 

 at the South. But, should it turn out, after it 

 has been fully tried, that we cannot profitably 

 make sugar from this cane at the North, then I 

 take it the cane w^ould be grown for syrup-mak- 

 ing ; and the only possible thing there will be to 

 prevent this — for I think I have shown beyond 

 contradiction that this can be done at the North 

 — may be that the South can produce as good 

 synip, and deliver it at our doors for a much less 

 price than we can do it. But I don't believe 

 that that can be done ; for I see no reason 

 why we should not be able to compete with 

 them in this article, for certainly they will labor 

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