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plow our fields, nor mow our meadows.
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In fact, we should be reduced to a state
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more abject than we are willing to look at,
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even prospectively,
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and yet all these things staring us in the face,
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we shut our eyes and we go in blindfold."
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Man, was that prescient.
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One of the most remarkable facts about the American Civil War--
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and James McPherson makes a big deal of
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this in Battle Cry of Freedom, over and over--
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is that despite their lack of the industrial productivity
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in relation to the North,