Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821: In a Series of Letters, with an Appendix Containing an Account of Several of the Indian Tribes and the Principal Missionary Stations, &c. ; Also, a Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour |
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... rendered more difficult and complicated by its connexion with considerations of much importance to New- foundland , Nova Scotia , and the West Indies , and its relation to the just claims and expectations of the inhabitants - my ...
... rendered more difficult and complicated by its connexion with considerations of much importance to New- foundland , Nova Scotia , and the West Indies , and its relation to the just claims and expectations of the inhabitants - my ...
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... rendered the subject of emigration so interesting when I left home , that it has secured my attention during every part of my route through the United States ; but I was perhaps led to endeavour to qualify my- self to form more clear ...
... rendered the subject of emigration so interesting when I left home , that it has secured my attention during every part of my route through the United States ; but I was perhaps led to endeavour to qualify my- self to form more clear ...
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... over their fire , to draw them out , and render them very commu- nicative . By this plan I not only escaped the ef- fects of the possible ill temper , or want of suavity , of a travelling companion , under the little trials of 20.
... over their fire , to draw them out , and render them very commu- nicative . By this plan I not only escaped the ef- fects of the possible ill temper , or want of suavity , of a travelling companion , under the little trials of 20.
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... render it difficult for him to elude the charge of being a wild and sanguine speculator . In one of his estimates , he states the following as the quantity of produce which a settler on 640 acres , may expect to raise in the first four ...
... render it difficult for him to elude the charge of being a wild and sanguine speculator . In one of his estimates , he states the following as the quantity of produce which a settler on 640 acres , may expect to raise in the first four ...
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... rendered indolent or inefficient for the rest of their lives . In Geor- gia and Carolina , we were told in a jocular way , that it was not uncommon for a person who was invited to dinner on a particular day , Wednes- day for instance ...
... rendered indolent or inefficient for the rest of their lives . In Geor- gia and Carolina , we were told in a jocular way , that it was not uncommon for a person who was invited to dinner on a particular day , Wednes- day for instance ...
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Page 219 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
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Page 259 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 161 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Page 234 - Institutions, containing in substance all that ages had done for human government, were established in a forest. Cultivated mind was to act on uncultivated nature; and, more than all, a government and a country were to commence with the very first foundations laid under the divine light of the Christian religion.
Page 233 - ... and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 161 - Fierce as his clime, uncultured as his plains, A soil where virtue's fairest flowers might shoot, And trees of science bend with glorious fruit; Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordained, 'midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire.
Page 304 - ... a thief, and compare the whole amount with the wages of a manufacturer of iron or wool in England, you will see, that labor is much cheaper there, than it ever can be by negroes here.
Page 279 - He saw that the negroes, like all other human beings, were to be stimulated to permanent exertion only by a sense of their own interests, in providing for their own wants and those of their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which, the industry he had excited among his whole gang, enabled him to pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reciprocity of interests. His people became contented...
Page 233 - And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of...