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"Devoted to Literature and National Policy"

_ espionage, censure,
{ and restriction:
{ Common schools and general intelligence _vs._ partial
{ culture and general ignorance;
{ Free inquiry _vs._ conventional stultification;
{ Free speech and a free press _vs._ the surveillance
{ of a mercenary police;
{ The political equality of classes _vs._ the inequality of
{ ruling, servile, and disfranchised classes;
{ Respect for the affections _vs._ disregard for ties of
{ home and family;
{ Wages labor _vs._ compulsory labor;
III. { The dignity of labor _vs._ the opprobrium and servility
{ of labor;
{ A healthy industrial activity _vs._ indolence and
{ crushing toil;
{ The continual specialization of industry _vs._ industrial
{ sameness;
{ Incentives to invention and improvement _vs._ mechanical
{ inactivity;
{ A constantly renewed soil _vs._ an exhausted one;
{ A great navy and flourishing commerce _vs._ general
{ commercial apathy;
{ Great industrial prosperity _vs._ industrial
{ stagnation;
{ Greater variety and versatility in life _vs._ a narrow
{ and bigoted uniformity.
As I close the preparation of this article for the press (November
26th), it becomes positively known that General Bragg is in full
retreat.


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