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We shall merely say, that any measure calculated to place agriculture and industry generally, in a disadvantageous and defenceless position, must have met with our unfactious, but firm, opposition.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various