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... increase our supplies from other quarters , there would not be much difficulty in meeting and remedying any sudden emergency . A cotton famine has often been impending , but we have always been able to avert such a calamity . Looking ...
... increase our supplies from other quarters , there would not be much difficulty in meeting and remedying any sudden emergency . A cotton famine has often been impending , but we have always been able to avert such a calamity . Looking ...
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... increase in the population of the whole Union , exclusive of territories , from 1790 to 1860 was 754 per cent .; for ... increase of the free over the slave States was 6,583,357 . The effect of this has been a reduction , every decade ...
... increase in the population of the whole Union , exclusive of territories , from 1790 to 1860 was 754 per cent .; for ... increase of the free over the slave States was 6,583,357 . The effect of this has been a reduction , every decade ...
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... increase in all the departments of national progress has been in the exact ratio of our increase in population . Whilst the latter has increased sixfold , our commercial exports have increased in the same period eightfold , and our ...
... increase in all the departments of national progress has been in the exact ratio of our increase in population . Whilst the latter has increased sixfold , our commercial exports have increased in the same period eightfold , and our ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 12 |
CONTINUED PROGRESS OF SLAVERY THE INFLUENCE OF | 23 |
CHAPTER IV | 30 |
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