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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

OFFICE OF INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS

Boston, April 10, 1866

 

My _____ Mr. Spooner,

 

I agree with you entirely that the salvation and liberty of the Blacks [?] depends upon the revival of industry at the south [?], or ____ the _____ of it. It is that it _____ have _____ chance [?] to ____ in the ____ the _____ _____ of the exslaveholders of becoming slaveholders again. As long [?] as there is any serious talk at the south of making this after all a white man’s government, then southern landholders will discourage immigration, and ______ will not ____ _ ______ _______ ______ suggesting they should, in such a stake of revival, try your banking scheme ____ and I think more[?] but just men….

 

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