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place while I remain in this city, how long this will be I can't tell; he says he is acquainted with you W^m^, and sends his love; -- You know that I send a heart full; I haven't then emp tied it, for like a boiling spring, which as you take away one vessel full, more flows in to sup ply the place of that taken away;

    I have visited the Hospital here, created for the

benefit of the 'Factory Girls' when they are sick --

    Will, you ought to be here just at eating hours of

day, to see what a host of the 'Factory Girls' throng the streets then, and to pass by the [Factories?] at such an hour, and see them pouring out like a swarm of bees coming out of a hive, I can compare them to nothing else; They seem comparatively happy; I have before now, heard their condition compared -- degradingly -- to the slaves (underlined) of our country; I should just like to see some one of those individuals who make such a comparison, try the experiment of going up to a group of these young "Factory Girls," -- as I was told they were -- whom I saw walking out a little while ago, looking more like the daughters of capitalists than slaves (underlined) and telling them that they were to be compared to the slave daughters in the Southern 'cotton Factories, (underlined) of Alabama & Georgia, and if those girls are not all [?] [resistant?], they'd show him, in more ways than one that they were not to be insulted with impunity or else I very much ^mistake^ the spirit they possess, as indicated by the proud tossing of their heads ______________________

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