A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America: Forming a Complete Emigrant's Directory Through Every Part of the Republic: Particularising the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Illinois; and the Territories of Alabama and Missouri ... East and West Florida, Michigan, and North-western ... Likewise, an Account of the British Possessions in Upper and Lower Canada ...Edwards & Knibb, 1820 - 751 páginas |
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Página 91
... Cotton , wool , and flax Making a total of . Of this amount nearly the whole is consumed at home , as appears from the following table of exports : Exports of manufacture . Years . From domes - From foreign tic materials . Dollars ...
... Cotton , wool , and flax Making a total of . Of this amount nearly the whole is consumed at home , as appears from the following table of exports : Exports of manufacture . Years . From domes - From foreign tic materials . Dollars ...
Página 92
... cotton increases rapidly , and , as well as wool and flax , is manufactured in establishments and in families . The first American cotton mill was erect- ed in the state of Rhode Island , in the year 1791 , another in the same state in ...
... cotton increases rapidly , and , as well as wool and flax , is manufactured in establishments and in families . The first American cotton mill was erect- ed in the state of Rhode Island , in the year 1791 , another in the same state in ...
Página 93
... cotton , wool , and flax , are manufactured in private families , mostly for their own use , and partly for sale . They con- sist principally of coarse cloth , flannel , cotton stuffs , and stripes of every description , linen , and ...
... cotton , wool , and flax , are manufactured in private families , mostly for their own use , and partly for sale . They con- sist principally of coarse cloth , flannel , cotton stuffs , and stripes of every description , linen , and ...
Página 94
... cotton , linen , and tow cloth , iron , spirits , wool and cotton cards , paper , spermaceti , sugar , machines for cutting screws , and fur- naces for casting hollow ware . - In Connecticut are manu- factured silk , wool , card - teeth ...
... cotton , linen , and tow cloth , iron , spirits , wool and cotton cards , paper , spermaceti , sugar , machines for cutting screws , and fur- naces for casting hollow ware . - In Connecticut are manu- factured silk , wool , card - teeth ...
Página 95
... cotton , wool , cordage , shot , and hair- powder ; in both the latter states , the manufacture of su- gar from the cane thrives well , and is increasing rapidly . Of the many places in the Union well adapted for manu facturing ...
... cotton , wool , cordage , shot , and hair- powder ; in both the latter states , the manufacture of su- gar from the cane thrives well , and is increasing rapidly . Of the many places in the Union well adapted for manu facturing ...
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Página 130 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Página 65 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 66 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 65 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Página 97 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Página 66 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 44 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 428 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Página 97 - ... which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Página 66 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him.