Georgia, for instance, we had done as much for the cause of internal improvements as any other portion of the country, according to population and means. We have stretched out lines of... The War Not for Emancipation - Page 67by Garrett Davis - 1862 - 78 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 220 pages
...money in the common treasury had been drawn for such purposes. Our opposition sprung from no hostily to commerce, or all necessary aids for facilitating...to the west of us, to reach the marts of the world. ISTo State was in greater need of such facilities than Georgia, but we had not asked that these works... | |
| Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...portion of the country, according to population and means. We have stretched out lines of railroad from the seaboard to the mountains ; dug down the hills, and filled up the valleys, at a cost of $25,000,000. * * * No State was in greater need of such facilities than Georgia, but we did not ask... | |
| Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...portion of the country, according to population and means. We have stretched out lines of railroad from the seaboard to the mountains ; dug down the hills, and filled up the valleys, at a cost of $25,000,000. * * * " No State was in greater need of such facilities than Georgia, but we did not ask... | |
| John Temple Graves, Clark Howell, Walter Williams - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 328 pages
...portion of the country, according to population and means. We have stretched out lines of railroad from the seaboard to the mountains; dug down the hills, and filled up the valleys, at a cost of $25,000,000. . . . No state was in greater need of such facilities than Georgia, but we did not ask... | |
| Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1996 - 456 pages
...should fall. In Georgia, for instance, we had done as much for the cause of internal improvements of as any other portion of the country, according to...filled up the valleys, at a cost of not less than 825,ooo,ooo. All this was done to open up an outlet for our products of the interior, and those to... | |
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