The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1863 |
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... measure for the overthrow of the slave trade , but opens a ready route of communication with Abbeokuta and the Yoruba country in the interior , a region admirably adapted for the culture of cotton and the production AFRICA . 3.
... measure for the overthrow of the slave trade , but opens a ready route of communication with Abbeokuta and the Yoruba country in the interior , a region admirably adapted for the culture of cotton and the production AFRICA . 3.
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... cotton has received a remark- able impulse throughout Africa . Egypt ex- ported in 1862 a much larger quantity than in any previous year ; Liberia and Sierra Leone sent some very excellent long stapled cotton into market ; the Yorubas ...
... cotton has received a remark- able impulse throughout Africa . Egypt ex- ported in 1862 a much larger quantity than in any previous year ; Liberia and Sierra Leone sent some very excellent long stapled cotton into market ; the Yorubas ...
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... Cotton , as was to be expected , rose from 32 to 34 cts . in Jan. , to 68 to 72 cts . in Dec. Rice , $ 6.75 to $ 7.75 per cwt . in Jan. , was $ 9 per cwt . in Dec. Potatoes , $ 1.38 to $ 2.25 per bbl . in Jan. , were $ 1.60 to $ 3 in ...
... Cotton , as was to be expected , rose from 32 to 34 cts . in Jan. , to 68 to 72 cts . in Dec. Rice , $ 6.75 to $ 7.75 per cwt . in Jan. , was $ 9 per cwt . in Dec. Potatoes , $ 1.38 to $ 2.25 per bbl . in Jan. , were $ 1.60 to $ 3 in ...
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... cotton manufactures , $ 1,306,500 ; Spindles 28,540 , looms 663 ; annual products , $ 917,105 . Capital invested in the manufacture of woollen goods , $ 100,000 ; spindles , 1,000 ; looms , 20 . Annual products , $ 218,000 . Value of ...
... cotton manufactures , $ 1,306,500 ; Spindles 28,540 , looms 663 ; annual products , $ 917,105 . Capital invested in the manufacture of woollen goods , $ 100,000 ; spindles , 1,000 ; looms , 20 . Annual products , $ 218,000 . Value of ...
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... cotton within the State , if it became necessary to prevent it from falling into the hands of the public enemy . He further urged them not to plant one seed of cotton beyond their home wants , but to put down their lands in grain and ...
... cotton within the State , if it became necessary to prevent it from falling into the hands of the public enemy . He further urged them not to plant one seed of cotton beyond their home wants , but to put down their lands in grain and ...
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Página 417 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Página 237 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Página 296 - ... the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public...
Página 5 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Página 269 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 326 - States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
Página 375 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Página 364 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated and private rights annulled.
Página 375 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Página 16 - Congress is empowered in general ' to raise and support armies;' and by the second section of the second article, the president is appointed commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and of the militia when called into the service of the United States.