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CULTIVATION OF COTTON. 
moral culture, and extending to him without stint or 
grudging all the rights to which he is properly entitled in 
his new condition, but at the same time preserving with 
jealous pertinacity a social barrier between him and us 
that shall be impassable and perpetual, for upon this 
depends our preservation as a people from a fate more 
deplorable than extermination itself." 
We sincerely hope that the apprehension expressed by 
the distinguished speaker will not be realized, and that the 
thunder is now preparing which will break in terrible fury 
on the heads of the traitors who have been trying to 
estabUsh a despotism upon the ruins of the republic. 
Let us hope for the best, labor and wait ; and the time, 
we trust, will soon come when our labor will not be in 
vain. 
