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Show TUE LJI.I£1\TY DELL. 150 . I . these is sLrong, though . that is nc l m . ~\ . commumty 'Ly that is poor m . A commum . it be bankrupt. d useless, though Jts . :venk and beggarly an thcliC 18' ' and its ships the sen. . over the land n factorieS c "one man is as good as another, People say • 1 oif a man; that is if lte is as muc'~ and it is true, "'. And that is what the poor b nly qucsbon. 1 t o o t who added to this proverb-' yes, man mean bo is more of a man t '' The man w and better oo. I think one place as good as . too Peop c " better . rhy that all parts of I read in the geogra' another. h . cculiar product- United States have t mr P . tho some . some corn and potatoes i gr~un, some sugar, and find very few places I l k over the map f but oo luxuriant harvest o that appear to produce a very . We look oduct worth havmg. men, the only pr . d States and for all that across whole Counties an ' Sahara in this the arc as barren as ' appears y . . N Orleans ranks of cat CihCS. OW respect. So gr . . f this country ; but who the CillCS 0 fourth among t to got monoy, wants to go to Now Orleans, exccp ,\.\f ' ;.Jy nnonu:~t's Ji:I:EI'Cit? J;jJ as a man goes into a bank. 'Vho li\'es the1·c whom anybody wishes to sec and hear Ullll be taught by 'f what book eyer came thence, what machine ? what fine action was cnr done there? what remarkable thing, in any way, except that one venerable battle ; - nnd yet there nrc those hundred thousand Lusy people there who certainly ought to keep us their brothers in something beside cotton. It is a great thing if, in a crowded town, we find n dozen houses where great thoughts and noble riows of life prevail, and yet these arc what preserve the atmosphere of a place, nnd keep it fit to sustain existence. Napoleon said that one family had sometimes been sufficient to ruin a Stateand one family may also S.'tvo it. Wo estimate places by individuals. We look across New York St..1te, and ask, what is there of value in that wide expanse? and then we remember that in one little town lives Gerrit Smith, who has given away a million and a half of ncres of Janel, piece by piece ; and in another town they rescued a fugitive Slaye |