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Protection ((unclear)) protection of industry - why - if you protect a mans mony in his pocket - why not protect him that he may earn money and have something in his pocket to put in his pocket for the wages of a pauper, or the man in the palace complains that he is unjustly treated. The protective systems which feeds ten millions, and enriches twenty, may incidentally cost the owner of five hundred slaves five dollars per annum, more or ((lefs?)), while it adds five hundred dollars to the value of his crop. Such is the opprefsion it opreates upon the planter. See cotton p 18 also p 36. It opprefses the farmer much in the same way: It employs in the shop the hands which would otherwise ruin him by Free trade promises him the corn market of England in exchange for the same