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5809. NEGROES, Elevating.—

Nobody
wishes more ardently than I do to see a good
system commenced for raising the condition


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both of their body and mind to what it ought
to be, as fast as the imbecility of their present
existence, and other circumstances which cannot
be neglected, will admit.—
To Benjamin Banneker. Washington ed. iii, 291. Ford ed., v, 377.
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