The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 61William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1869 |
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... average twenty dollars an acre ; in Alabama , nine dollars an acre ; yet undoubtedly at the South the best lands only in each State were under cultivation . It is trite to say that slavery was the cause of this difference , yet few who ...
... average twenty dollars an acre ; in Alabama , nine dollars an acre ; yet undoubtedly at the South the best lands only in each State were under cultivation . It is trite to say that slavery was the cause of this difference , yet few who ...
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... average condition of the banks . Now it is notorious that under the old system this was not so . The banks everywhere were tempted to prepare for their quarterly reports . They were anxious to offer a strong statement , and they knew ...
... average condition of the banks . Now it is notorious that under the old system this was not so . The banks everywhere were tempted to prepare for their quarterly reports . They were anxious to offer a strong statement , and they knew ...
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... average of 9,500 per annum . An important class of educated blacks has thus grown up , who , together with the Liberian blacks , are actively engaged in trade all down the coast ; and ever since the mail steamers were established , in ...
... average of 9,500 per annum . An important class of educated blacks has thus grown up , who , together with the Liberian blacks , are actively engaged in trade all down the coast ; and ever since the mail steamers were established , in ...
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... average during the first four- teen years was 17,932 tons ; and during the last fourteen years 24,734 tons ; but during the first fourteen years the trade was chiefly with L ́v- erpool ; Bristol participated , and of late years the ...
... average during the first four- teen years was 17,932 tons ; and during the last fourteen years 24,734 tons ; but during the first fourteen years the trade was chiefly with L ́v- erpool ; Bristol participated , and of late years the ...
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... average of five years ending 1865 the Imports were ... ... Exports were ..... .... £ 349,562 877,801 Of these the largest proportion is with British India ; the Germans and Americans come next ; the British trade is however on the ...
... average of five years ending 1865 the Imports were ... ... Exports were ..... .... £ 349,562 877,801 Of these the largest proportion is with British India ; the Germans and Americans come next ; the British trade is however on the ...
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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...