 | United States. Congress - United States - 1859 - 634 pages
...headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king. Until lately the Bank of England was king, but she tried to put her screws as usual, the fall before... | |
 | Universalism - 1862 - 462 pages
...Senator Hammond of South Carolina — considered as boasting of the power which the South can keep : " ' No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king ; until lately the Bank of England was king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual, the fall before... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...Hammond, addressed to the Senate of the United States, March 4th, 1858, are very well known : — " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power...on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king; until lately the Bank of England was king; but she tned to put her screws, as usual, the fall before... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton u king. Until lately the Bank of England was king, but she tried to put her screws as usual, the fall... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 398 pages
...States, and to the supposed superiority of a community of privileged classes over an actual democracy. " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king ; until lately the Bank of England was king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual, the fall before... | |
 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 388 pages
...States, and to the supposed superiority of a community of privileged classes over an actual democracy. " No ! you dare not make war upon cotton ; no power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king ; until lately the Bank of England was king ; but she tried to put her screws, as usual, the fall before... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Anonyms and pseudonyms - 1865 - 462 pages
...senate of the United States, on the 4th of March, 1858, from which the following is an extract:— "No : you dare not make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is kins. Until lately, the Bank of England was king; but ehe tried to put her screws, as usual, the fall... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...mudsill" speech in the United States Senate, in the palmy days of Union, when THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES OP THE REBELLION. the lion and the lamb there commingled....there is another King besides Cotton — Humbug is King ! " Which SideP Walking one day on the beach at Birattz, Louis Napoleon happened to meet an intelligent... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1866 - 780 pages
...remembered for his famous "mudsill" speech in the United States Senate, in the palmy days of Union, when the lion and the lamb there commingled. . In that...with Senator Clark, of New Hampshire, who, in his ^eview of the astute South Carolinian's argument, remarked : " Cotton is King ! Sir, there is another... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...of the United States, in March, 1858, Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, said, exultingly : — " You dare not make war upon Cotton. N"o power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is KING. Until lately the Bank of England was king; but she tried to put her screws, as usual, the Fall before... | |
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England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King. 
