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  easily 
  led 
  to 
  think 
  were 
  dependent 
  upon 
  war 
  for 
  their 
  cul- 
  

   tivation. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  water 
  the 
  men 
  who 
  

   carried 
  on 
  these 
  fisheries 
  had 
  always 
  been 
  encouraged, 
  and 
  

   sometimes 
  by 
  special 
  bounties, 
  and 
  so 
  important 
  were 
  they 
  

   considered 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  House 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  over 
  

   the 
  Speaker's 
  chair 
  there 
  hung 
  a 
  model 
  of 
  a 
  codfish 
  as 
  an 
  

   emblem 
  of 
  what 
  was 
  then 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  industry 
  of 
  the 
  

   State. 
  As 
  an 
  emblem 
  of 
  silence 
  he 
  believed 
  it 
  had 
  had 
  no 
  

   great 
  effect 
  in 
  repressing 
  the 
  eloquence 
  of 
  the 
  Chamber 
  of 
  

   Representatives, 
  but 
  the 
  thought 
  of 
  it 
  had 
  so 
  warning 
  an 
  

   effect 
  on 
  himself 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  not 
  detain 
  the 
  Conference 
  

   longer 
  than 
  to 
  repeat 
  his 
  thanks 
  for 
  the 
  cordial 
  way 
  in 
  

   which 
  the 
  vote 
  of 
  thanks 
  had 
  been 
  received. 
  

  

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