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What do you think ought to be the feelings of those who pay us tribute, or
of those who get it in, and exact it, when two kings with very numerous armies are all but on
the spot? when one inroad of cavalry may in a very short time carry off the revenue of a whole
year? when the publicans think that they retain the large households of slaves which they have
in the salt-works, in the fields, in the harbours, and custom-houses, at the greatest risk? Do
you think that you can enjoy these advantages unless you preserve those men who are productive
to you, free not only, as I said before, from calamity, but even from the dread of calamity?
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