The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing Upon the Prosperity of Great Britain and Commerce of the American Republics, Considered in Connection with the System of Negro Slavery in the Confederate States |
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... bales in 1748 , and ten bales in 1770 , but the produce may have been of island growth . The attention of the Americans after peace was concluded , in 1783 , was turned more towards the cultivation of cotton , not for export , but for ...
... bales in 1748 , and ten bales in 1770 , but the produce may have been of island growth . The attention of the Americans after peace was concluded , in 1783 , was turned more towards the cultivation of cotton , not for export , but for ...
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... bales were shipped to Liverpool , and were seized at the Custom House there , as an illicit importation of British colonial produce ; they were re- stored to their consignees so soon as it was discovered that so large ' a quantity of ...
... bales were shipped to Liverpool , and were seized at the Custom House there , as an illicit importation of British colonial produce ; they were re- stored to their consignees so soon as it was discovered that so large ' a quantity of ...
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... bale . By thus holding back the crop , Mr. Biddle might be ' enabled to realise a large profit on the crop of 1837 and 1838 , which he had purchased , and in the meantime the planters of the South would be left to bear the whole of the ...
... bale . By thus holding back the crop , Mr. Biddle might be ' enabled to realise a large profit on the crop of 1837 and 1838 , which he had purchased , and in the meantime the planters of the South would be left to bear the whole of the ...
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... bales new crop In the interior towns . On the plantations Crop of 1861 : - Bales 37,574 6,200 25,000 68,774 Bales 3,500,000 • " " 1862 1863 • 29 1,000,000 800,000 5,300,000 5,368,774 Bales Destroyed and damaged equal to Exported ...
... bales new crop In the interior towns . On the plantations Crop of 1861 : - Bales 37,574 6,200 25,000 68,774 Bales 3,500,000 • " " 1862 1863 • 29 1,000,000 800,000 5,300,000 5,368,774 Bales Destroyed and damaged equal to Exported ...
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... bales , at least , will be required for consumption in the American States , North and South , leaving 800,000 bales for exportation to foreign countries , against 3,127,568 bales shipped during the season which closed August 31 , 1861 ...
... bales , at least , will be required for consumption in the American States , North and South , leaving 800,000 bales for exportation to foreign countries , against 3,127,568 bales shipped during the season which closed August 31 , 1861 ...
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Page 166 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Page 230 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 224 - The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Page 264 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 99 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 203 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 250 - No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons* SECTION 4.
Page 264 - Kansas ; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 237 - All territory, places and possessions whatsoever, taken by either party from the other, during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay...
Page 227 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.