think [thing], <we have the> high[e]st pricees. best lands. & do the most good with. th[e] money. <we get.> <our system> it is a real smut machine a bolting machine.— & all the <shorts> brann & smut. runs away & all the flour remains with us.—
suppose I sell you land for $10. per acre & I gave 3. 4. 5 per acre . . . then you are speculating <says one,> yes, I will tell you how. I buy others lands & give them to the widow & the fatherless,——
If theythese <the> speculators run again[s]t me they run again[s]t the buckler of Jehovah.— God did not send me up as he did Joshua, in former days God sent [p. [129]]