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Marshall\u00a0 of Fauqier\u00a0 County, in the Legislature of Virginia in the last session:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Slavery is ruinous to the whites\u00a0 &#8212; retards improvement &#8212; roots out industrious population, banishes the yeomanry of the country &#8212; deprives the weaver, the spinner, the smith, the carpenter of employment and support.\u00a0 This evil admits of no remedy \u2013 it is increasing, and will continue to increase, until the whole country will be inundated with one black wave, covering its whole extent, with a few white faces here and there floating on the surface.The master has no capital but what is invested in human flesh \u2013 the father, instead of being richer for his sons, is at a loss how to provide for them \u2013 there is no diversity of occupations, no incentive to enterprise.\u00a0 Labor of every species is disreputable, because performed mostly\u00a0 by slaves.\u00a0 Our towns are stationary, our villages almost everywhere declining \u2013 and the general aspect of the country marks the curse of a wasteful, idle, reckless population who have no interest in the soil, and care not how much it is impoverished.\u00a0\u00a0 Public improvements are neglected, and the entire continent does not present a region for which nature has done so much, and art so little.\u00a0 If\u00a0 cultivated by free labor, the soil of Virginia is capable of sustaining a vast population, among whom labor would be honorable, and where \u2018 the busy hum of men\u2019 would tell that all were happy, and all were free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe following is an extract from the speech of\u00a0 Mr. T. 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