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4391. LAND, People and.—

It is too soon
yet in our country to say that every man, who
cannot find employment, but who can find uncultivated
land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it,
paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon
to provide, by every possible means, that as few
as possible shall be without a little portion of
land.—
To Rev. James Madison. Ford ed., vii, 36.
(Pa., 1785)