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and billed at II, having mad a the din-tnnee of )4 milen. TliU would be at ilte rate of® rollea per day. You may image it Hun warm work. On our rofiro wo pnlt;mcd—after wo had crossed the MlnnUaippI Ilno-^iHsvefal largo and beautiful plantation*, in which, on some beautiful site, wna the largo and handsome mansion of the wealthy planter. ftnd fur removed wan iho little n*. jrro town of very nlco and comfortable* log bouse#, not bat*, looking churn awl healthy, and much hotter than in noon occupied by tlm darkoy at tha North. In fact, I ho fditck man in the South, groaning under tlu» “weight of tlm wjyohe al* bomlwgo/’ writhing in agony tjfrdm the tnrfiffoW bin shnckle*, U far ’« happier than his contemporary in the d North, and better provided with the nceonftifiert of life.roThe^fl lafjij plantnt Ions, t\htah wore formerly covered with Cotton, are now waving majestically with the ft nest of Indian corn, and fields containing hundreds of acres, arc now planted in corn that only yielded cotton before. The reason is nhriotfta The itntvfffVMo gran-arks of the North-west arc clnud to thru country, and their old cotton crop is whnt rri upon them, ho time while they have nn abundance of thu latter, there la a scarcity of the former article. Con-»r«|uetif!y cotton n no1 the t?ng heused to be.
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The Highland Weekly News
Hillsboro, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 10, 1862
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