The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 61William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1869 |
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... Southern type ; individuality has been emancipated from communism , the rank license of thought and speech has been restrained within the bounds of decorum , propriety has become more influential than extrava- agence , and distinction ...
... Southern type ; individuality has been emancipated from communism , the rank license of thought and speech has been restrained within the bounds of decorum , propriety has become more influential than extrava- agence , and distinction ...
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... Southern people know that in the office of humanity they were entitled to rank with any other com- munity . We know that the Roman discipline of the plantation was tempered with patriarchal benevolence -- that subordination went hand in ...
... Southern people know that in the office of humanity they were entitled to rank with any other com- munity . We know that the Roman discipline of the plantation was tempered with patriarchal benevolence -- that subordination went hand in ...
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... Southern States , excluding Maryland and Delaware , with an area of 830,000 square miles , contained in 1860 11,500,000 inhabitants , which is less than fourteen to the square mile . If all the South were as densely populated as South ...
... Southern States , excluding Maryland and Delaware , with an area of 830,000 square miles , contained in 1860 11,500,000 inhabitants , which is less than fourteen to the square mile . If all the South were as densely populated as South ...
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... Southern population , and Euro- pean immigration would long since have filled up all the rest of our pres- ent territory . But when the whole intelligence of the South was intent upon discovering the best and richest soils , when its ...
... Southern population , and Euro- pean immigration would long since have filled up all the rest of our pres- ent territory . But when the whole intelligence of the South was intent upon discovering the best and richest soils , when its ...
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... southern limit is the Cape Colony . It thus comprises about forty - five degrees of latitude , and is bounded , east and west , by the Indian and Atlantic oceans ; its area being equal to one - fifth or one sixth part of the habitable ...
... southern limit is the Cape Colony . It thus comprises about forty - five degrees of latitude , and is bounded , east and west , by the Indian and Atlantic oceans ; its area being equal to one - fifth or one sixth part of the habitable ...
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Page 256 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 338 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 338 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 90 - ... people had become unable to buy them, except in very insufficient quantities, there was a great and urgent need of something to replace the cotton seed, and restore to the soil those chief ingredients, indispensable to the production of a good cotton crop — phosphoric acid, or soluble phosphates. In this emergency came the discovery of those natural deposits. , Already too much space has been given to the effort to report faithfully the condition of the cotton culture of the United States,...
Page 427 - The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market.
Page 339 - This coincidence of the two great English commonwealths (for so I delight to call them ; and I heartily pray that they may be forever united in the cause of justice and liberty) cannot be contemplated without the utmost pleasure by every enlightened citizen of the earth.
Page 339 - ... of other States. I have already observed its coincidence with the declarations of England, which indeed is perfect, if allowance be made for the deeper, or at least more immediate interest in the independence of South America which near neighborhood gives the United States.
Page 86 - annihilation of property," for the whole labor power would have remained as before, only it would have changed owners. Precisely so stands the effect of the decree of emancipation, made as an act of war, with this difference, however, that the laborers of both races were sadly reduced and demoralized by the incidents of the war which wrought the change. The same laboring force still exists, with the exception mentioned, and except, also, that the sudden and violent change in relations between capital...
Page 427 - But that degradation in the value of silver which, being the effect either of the peculiar situation, or of the political institutions of a particular country, takes place only in that country, is a matter of very great consequence, which, far from tending to make any body really richer, tends to make every body really poorer.
Page 89 - ... country. A description of them and of the circumstances leading to their discovery will be found in the Appendix C, in a letter from Dr. NA Pratt, whose researches, aided by others, have opened up a treasure whose value cannot now be measured. This store of phosphates, thus prepared in nature's laboratory and laid up until the day of special need, contains just the chemical properties wanted for the cotton plant, and which the cotton seed had been abstracting from the soil. So long as cotton...