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... already on the eve of embarkation , and then ad- dressed himself to the French monarch and his Court . France saw at once the dangers of a transfer of so great a number of seamen , together with the very secret , art and mystery of ...
... already on the eve of embarkation , and then ad- dressed himself to the French monarch and his Court . France saw at once the dangers of a transfer of so great a number of seamen , together with the very secret , art and mystery of ...
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... already information of the loss of eleven vessels , one - thirteenth part of the whole fleet of 1851 , many of which disasters might have been avoided had there been charts , accurately indicating the shoals and headlands , and also ...
... already information of the loss of eleven vessels , one - thirteenth part of the whole fleet of 1851 , many of which disasters might have been avoided had there been charts , accurately indicating the shoals and headlands , and also ...
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... already engaged in this pursuit , and henceforward the whale hunters of Nantucket must compete with new rivals possessing the advantage of nearness to the scenes of their labors . California , therefore , joins Massachusetts in this ...
... already engaged in this pursuit , and henceforward the whale hunters of Nantucket must compete with new rivals possessing the advantage of nearness to the scenes of their labors . California , therefore , joins Massachusetts in this ...
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... already seven millions in value annually . Have you watched the Cali- fornia trade ? Its export of bullion alone already exceeds fifty millions of dollars annually , and as yet the mineral development of that State has only begun . The ...
... already seven millions in value annually . Have you watched the Cali- fornia trade ? Its export of bullion alone already exceeds fifty millions of dollars annually , and as yet the mineral development of that State has only begun . The ...
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... already on the Atlantic coast of America . As to those who cannot see how this movement will improve the condition of Asia , I leave them to reflect upon the improve- ments in the condition of Europe since the discovery and colonization ...
... already on the Atlantic coast of America . As to those who cannot see how this movement will improve the condition of Asia , I leave them to reflect upon the improve- ments in the condition of Europe since the discovery and colonization ...
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Página 5 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 5 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Página 2 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.
Página 5 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 13 - European connections, although actually becoming more intimate— -will, nevertheless, relatively sink in importance ; while the Pacific ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter...
Página 2 - ... two systems which the first Napoleon was contemplating when he predicted that Europe would ultimately be either all Cossack or all republican. Never did human sagacity utter a more pregnant truth. The two systems are at once perceived to be incongruous. But they are more than incongruous — they are incompatible. They never have permanently existed together in one country and they never can. It would be easy to demonstrate this impossibility from the irreconcilable contrast between their great...
Página 7 - I know, and you know, that a revolution has begun. I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.
Página 3 - Constitution and laws they invited foreign free labor from all lands under the sun, and interdicted the importation of African slave labor, at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances whatsoever. It is true that they necessarily and wisely modified this policy of Freedom, by leaving it to the several States, affected as they were by differing circumstances, to abolish Slavery in their own way and at their own pleasure, instead of confiding that duty to Congress, and that they secured...
Página 3 - Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our institutions and restored a sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the Confederacy. That this repose is to suffer no shock during my official term, if I have power to avert it, those who placed me here may be assured.
Página 2 - It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against! mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies whicH ! otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. , ; The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment...