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1823. CORRUPTION, Agriculturists and.—

Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators
is a phenomenon of which no age nor
nation has furnished an example. It is the
mark set on those, who, not looking up to
heaven, to their own soil and industry, as
does the husbandman, for their subsistence,
depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 405. Ford ed., iii, 268.
(1782)